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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…

March, 2023.- “Querying Graph Databases with XPath” is the title of the work by Domagoj Vrgoč, faculty member at the Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional (IMC) and IMFD researcher; one of the papers honored with the “Test of Time” award during the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (ICDT), the most important event in…

March 2023.- They are Matías Nova (Liceo Bicentenario San Nicolás), Diego Rebollo (Colegio Almondale Lomas), Leandro Parada (San Fernando College), and Matías Oteiza (The Greenland School): the four selected from the national competition who will represent Chile at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2023, which will take place in Hungary from August 28 to September…

The International Conference on Extending Database Technology (ICDT) is the most important conference in the field of databases, where researchers, developers, industry professionals, and users gather to learn about new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences. In the 26th edition of ICDT, held from March 28 to 31, 2023, in hybrid format in…

December, 2022.- With productive working sessions, in which participants split up by topics of interest and specialization, the Workshop of PE2 and PE3 of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), held at the main campus of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, in Valparaíso, came to a close. Around 40 researchers and…

February 2023.- The technology research company 3M, short for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, created the initiative “25 Women in Science Latin America”, which recognizes outstanding female scientists in the region. As part of its 3rd edition, Jocelyn Dunstan, researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academic at the Computer…

January, 2023.- Six research projects by researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) were awarded funding through the Fondecyt funds for 2023. This funding is provided by the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, ANID, to promote scientific-technological research in various areas of knowledge, through the funding of excellence research projects…

January 2023.- As part of the “Corfo Conecta” program, run by the Production Development Corporation (Corfo), this entity visited the offices of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) at the Centro de Innovación UC, seeking to introduce various companies to the IMFD Innovation and Technology Transfer area. The program, an initiative of…

December 2022.- Naim Bro, Assistant Professor at the School of Government of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, has recently joined the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) as a Young Researcher. The academic specializes in the study of dynamics associated with political elites and social stratification, from the perspective of computational social sciences, highlighting his…