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…
May, 2023.- The experimental application Constituteando (https://constituteando.imfd.cl/), based on original work to improve GPT capabilities, has just been launched by researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The application allows users to make queries about general information, ideas, or proposals from candidates for constitutional councilors in the elections of Sunday, May…
May 2023.- María José Apolo, former IMFD student and graduate in Computer Engineering from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, works in the field of creative artificial intelligence, researching how style transfer is performed from music to images, through deep learning. In the research “Bimodal style transference from musical composition to image using deep generative models,”…
May 2023.- Chilean researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) conducted a new interdisciplinary study on disinformation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram that circulated in Chile in the context of the social outbreak and the pandemic. “The results of the study indicate that the disinformation phenomenon in Chile presents characteristics of…
May, 2023.- With the goal of joining efforts to collaborate in the area of research and development, the Dirección Meteorológica de Chile and the Innovation Department of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) signed a collaboration agreement that will link data science knowledge with the invaluable climatological and atmospheric information held by…
**April, 2023.-** How can the knowledge generated in universities and research centers be made available for lawmaking in the country? This is the question behind the [Vincula Meeting Platform](https://app.vincula.cl/), a technological product developed by the IMFD Innovation team, as part of the collaboration between the **Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)** and the…
January, 2023.- With the participation of more than 100 students from different countries, the first first MIT-Chile Human Centered AI & Visualization Research Workshop was held at the San Joaquín campus of Universidad Católica de Chile. The event featured presentations and talks on topics ranging from bias in natural language, machine learning, brain-computer interactions, and…
An important area within artificial intelligence is that of recommender systems: given an immense number of options, how can we suggest items that are actually of interest to people, in a personalized way and taking into account users’ history? In the specific field of job selection, the importance of this topic goes hand in hand…