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…
January 2023.- A new recognition for his research work was received by Gonzalo Navarro, academic at the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), who was distinguished as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the leading…
January 2023.- With an invitation to view our reality from the perspective of data, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) held the “Introduction to Data Science Without a Computer Workshop” with teachers from different schools in the central zone of the country. “The goal of this activity is to teach that data…
December 2022.- The IMFD Research Seminars aim to promote knowledge of the different work topics among the different teams and researchers of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Since late 2021, they have been held monthly in hybrid format on the first Wednesday of each month, covering different topics ranging from natural…
December, 2022.- Consolidating the relevance of role models and collaboration within the community of women working in computing, computer science and other STEM fields, the tenth Chile Women in Computing (ChileWiC) gathering was held with a large turnout and great enthusiasm from participants, at the San Joaquín campus of Pontificia Universidad Católica. “We are very…
December, 2022.- Jocelyn Dunstan, researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and faculty member at the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad Católica (DCC UC) and at the Institute of Engineering and Computational Mathematics UC (IMC UC), received the Adelina Gutiérrez Award for Scientific Excellence for Young Women Researchers, in…
December 2023.- The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) received the renewal of its funding, following the mid-term evaluation carried out during the second half of this year. “As a team we have a great commitment to the project, which was reflected in the results of this evaluation,” highlights Juan Reutter, deputy director…
December 2022.- As part of the School Research and Innovation Project “Protagonists of Science 2022” of Explora Región Metropolitana Sur Poniente, seven students and a teacher from Complejo Educacional Maipú visited the offices of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), to share their learnings and get to know the space where researchers…