June 2023.- Getting people to understand data: this is the goal of C80, the innovative project created by IMFD student Ricardo Vega, faculty member at the UC School of Design, PhD student at the PUC Department of Computer Science. This initiative was born in 2015 with the goal of bringing the Constitution closer to people…
June, 2022.- In recognition of his outstanding scientific career, DCC U. Chile academic and senior researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), Ricardo Baeza-Yates was inducted as a Full Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences, the entity that brings together the country’s most distinguished scientists. “It means being one of the…
June, 2023.- Each year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) -founded in 1947 as the first scientific and educational society in the field of computing- organizes the SIGMOD/PODS Conference. Currently, the event is considered one of the most important international forums in the field of data management, where researchers gather to explore new ideas, results,…
May 2023.- With the attendance of representatives from the Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, and academia, the Vincula project held its official launch on May 26 at the Casa Central of the Universidad Católica, with the goal of strengthening legislative work through collaborative efforts, data intelligence, and better access to scientific evidence. The platform facilitates connections…
June, 2023.- Niñas Pro together with the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) are opening registrations for a new version of the Arduino Quest, in which participants can learn to program in Arduino and build a project with electronic components. This is a completely free and online workshop, and those who participate and persevere…
June, 2023.- The Encounter Communication and Human Rights: Communicating from Responsibility and Respect, organized by VioDemos together with the Centro de Estudios Justicia y Sociedad UC and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), was held on Thursday, June 8, at the San Joaquín Campus. The encounter was attended by Daniela Fernández, journalist from…
June, 2023.- In Washington D.C., between May 24 and 26, the Nobel Prize Summit took place, a summit that brings together Nobel Laureates, scientists, public policy makers, business leaders and youth leaders, to explore the question: How can we build trust in truth, facts and scientific evidence in order to have a more hopeful future…
June, 2022.- The Olimpiada Chilena de Informática invites you to take part in the first Friendly Competitive Programming Session, which will take place between June 24 and July 1, 2023. The goal of this activity is to promote interest in competitive programming and to help students who participate get to know the format and tools…
June, 2023.- Cinthia Sánchez, PhD student at the Department of Computer Science of Universidad de Chile and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), presented the paper “Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Crisis Classification for Low-Resource Scenarios” at The Seventeenth International Conference on Web and Social Media, the international conference on web and social media that…
June 2023.- With the goal of providing a broad and critical perspective on the development and possibilities of language models, specifically regarding the latest technological advances in the field of artificial intelligence and the major impact generated by ChatGPT, during the month of May, the research group Representations for Learning and Language (ReLeLa), from the…
May 2023.- The 15th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW) was held in late May at the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad de Chile and was attended by close to 60 people, including speakers, academics, and students (undergraduate and graduate), all interested in the field of data management. Renzo…
The impact of data on power when viewed through the lens of feminism and intersectionality: this was the main topic of the first session of the Reading Club of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and the Observatorio de Datos y estadísticas de Género (ODEGI). The meeting, which had extensive participation, was moderated…
May, 2023.- A new language and type system called Jazz was presented by researchers from the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad de Chile (DCC U. Chile) and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) in “Contextual Linear Types for Differential Privacy”, work developed by Matías Toro, Federico Olmedo and Éric Tanter, and…
May 2023.- “Find a witness or shatter: the landscape of computable PAC learning” is the title of the work by IMFD researchers and international postdoctoral fellows from the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering of the P. Universidad Católica de Chile (IMC UC), Valentino Delle Rose, Alexander Kozachinskiy and Tomasz Steifer, together with the faculty…
**May, 2023.-** Society currently faces political and cultural scenarios that change at a dizzying pace, causing our reading of reality to oscillate between hope and uncertainty. In our country, political, electoral, and social processes seem to allow no respite since October 18th, compounded by the proliferation of disinformation campaigns, hate speech, and denialism. Where the…