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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 for 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…

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 for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), was held on Thursday, June 8, at the San Joaquín Campus. The encounter was attended by Daniela Fernández, journalist…

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 for 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…

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 for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and the Observatorio de Datos y estadísticas de Género (ODEGI). The meeting, which had extensive participation, was…

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 for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) in “Contextual Linear Types for Differential Privacy”, work developed by Matías Toro, Federico Olmedo and Éric Tanter,…

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…

May 2023.- The study of programming languages is fundamental work for data science today. This is why this Third Meeting on Foundations of Programming Languages, held at the Ministry of Science and Technology of Córdoba, Argentina, is of special relevance for our region. The large delegation that traveled from Chile to the event was made…

Do you like taking photos, with your camera or your phone? Are there moments in your everyday life that catch your attention and that you’d like to capture in images? The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) has just launched a photography contest for its entire internal community, seeking to gather the perspectives…

May, 2023.- After five years of continuous work in academia and research at the School of Communications of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, IMFD researcher Magdalena Saldaña is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at this institution. This rank is an important recognition in the academic career of PUC professors, and acknowledges commitment…