October, 2023.- “Around the world, women are not on equal footing when it comes to driving the creation of new technologies that will define their lives. This is not good for women, nor is it good for the world. Women must take their rightful place at the table, creating the technology of the future.” This…
October, 2023.- The “Most Notable Paper Award” from the 19th Dynamic Language Symposium recognizes the most influential research work, with 10 years of hindsight, and this year the featured paper is “Cast Insertion Strategies for Gradually-Typed Objects” (2013), by Esteban Allende, Johan Fabry and Éric Tanter, all of them, at the time, from the Departamento…
**October, 2023.-** “With the AI boom in recent years, **NeurIPS has become the place where much of the most relevant research and developments in machine learning worldwide are presented**,” says Pablo Barceló, director of the Institute for Mathematical and Computational Engineering (IMC UC) and associate researcher at the **Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data…
October, 2023.- With very enthusiastic participation from the students who joined the activity, the International School on Computational Social Sciences in Uruguay was held, jointly organized by the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), the Interdisciplinary Center for Data Science and Machine Learning (CICADA-CSIC/Udelar) and the Unit for Methods and Data Access (UMAD-FCS/Udelar)….
October, 2023.- With the participation of more than 130 students at 10 sites across the country, the Regional Phase of the Chilean Informatics Olympiad was held. Those who took part at the sites in Arica, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Santiago, Rancagua, Talca, Chillán, Concepción, Temuco and Puerto Montt, in addition to the online site, competed for four…
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 for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)…
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 for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), at CENIA, and professor at the Department of Computer Science…
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 for 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…
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 for Foundational Research…
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 for 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…
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 do not have many resources. I felt free and enjoyed the classes a lot,” says Catalina Astorga at the…
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 do not want humans’ job to be standing somewhere, verifying data, but rather…