Highlighting his scientific career, the academic DCC U. Chile and senior researcher at IMFD, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, was named a new member of the Academia Europaea (in Latin) last October 10 during the Building Bridges 2023 Annual Conference, in Munich. “It is a Europe-wide academy for outstanding researchers, where I have been considered among the best…
October, 2023.- The Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI) opens registration for the 2023 edition, which will feature a mandatory first qualifying phase, to be held simultaneously at 11 venues throughout Chile on Saturday, October 21. The Chilean Informatics Olympiad is a programming competition for students from 7th grade to 12th grade, in which participants must solve…
September, 2023.- How can the world of health be brought closer to people who are being trained in engineering? This was the challenge that gave rise to the podcast Ciencia de Datos en Salud, by IMC and DCC UC academic Jocelyn Duntsan Escudero, which premiered on the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) Spotify…
August, 2023.- An open-source interactive platform that will facilitate the experimentation of machine learning models for various tasks in NLP and computer vision. This is Dash AI, the project led by Felipe Bravo Márquez, researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), at CENIA, and professor at the Department of Computer Science of…
August, 2023.- With the participation of more than 50 people in online format, the successful first edition of the Reading Club of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and Observatorio de Datos y Estadísticas de Género (ODEGI), came to an end, in which participants read the book Data Feminism by authors Catherine D’Ignazio…
August, 2023.- A recognition of academic contribution and the dissemination of knowledge is the distinction awarded by the P. Universidad Católica to more than a hundred faculty members of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile who have completed between 25 and 50 years of outstanding work. One of these recognitions went to Marcelo Arenas, former…
August, 2023.- With the goal of establishing an initial theoretical and practical approach to computational and data science tools applied to social research, the International School in Computational Social Sciences seeks to train participants in the use of computational tools for the analysis of social data. Organized jointly by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on…
August, 2023.- Gonzalo Navarro, faculty member of the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), has been named today as “People of the ACM”, a distinction that highlights the unique scientific achievements and personal history of members of the Association…
August 2023.- “It was a moment to step out of my world, where I was worried and stressed about personal problems, and I also love programming, this was really a great opportunity for me since I don’t have many resources. I felt free and enjoyed the classes a lot,” says Catalina Astorga at the closing…
August, 2023.- “We want humans to be in charge,” says Ricardo Baeza-Yates, research director at the Institute for Experiential IA Northeastern University, DCC U. Chile academic, and IMFD researcher, at the start of the talk Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Challenges and Recommendations. “We don’t want humans’ job to be standing somewhere, verifying data, but rather being…
August, 2023.- Since 1974, experts in data science, machine learning and natural language processing, among other areas, have gathered at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). The 2023 edition of the event -considered one of the three largest gatherings of its kind in the world- will take place in Krakow (Poland) and includes the…
August, 2023.- Learning about more tools used in a specific research area and combining resources to advance research and learning: interdisciplinary work is becoming increasingly key to the current development of knowledge in all fields. The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) is an international event that seeks to broaden knowledge in computational social…
July, 2023.- With an eye on the future of the interdisciplinary research carried out at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), this research center’s 2023 Winter Workshop was held at the Manuel Montt campus of Universidad Mayor. Throughout the event, nearly 100 participants from the various disciplines that converge at IMFD gathered to…
July, 2023.- Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, academic at IMC UC with a joint appointment at the Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación UC, PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and the Millennium Institute for Engineering and Artificial Intelligence in Health (iHEALTH), was appointed as…
July, 2023.- The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) is an international event that seeks to broaden knowledge in computational social science, promoting interdisciplinary participation between computer science and social science. This year SICSS will have a location in Chile for the first time, at the San Joaquín Campus of the P. Universidad Católica…