May, 2022.- The fourth Research Seminar of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) concluded with a large audience, held in hybrid format at the IMFD offices, at the Innovation Center of Universidad Católica. Magdalena Saldaña, IMFD researcher and academic at the Faculty of Communications of the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, presented the…
May 2022.- Highlighting the elegance of the work, and its potential impact on future research, the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) chose “Expressiveness and Approximation Properties of Graph Neural Networks” among its Outstanding Paper Award winners, a work by Juan Reutter, IMFD Researcher and academic at the Department of Computer Science (DDC UC) and…
April, 2022.- The research, carried out jointly with Carlos Hernández, academic at the UNAB Department of Sciences and Nicolás Rivera, from the Universidad de Valparaíso, received the “AAAI-22 Distinguished Paper Award”, awarded by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), one of the leading entities in the field of AI research, knowledge, and…
April 2022.- Susana Eyheramendy is the first dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology, created at Universidad Mayor following a restructuring that groups together degree programs in the data and engineering fields, such as Informatics and Computing, Electronics, Data Science and Construction; as well as degree programs in the environmental and biological fields,…
April 2022.- Pablo Barceló, deputy director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), researcher at the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (Cenia) and director of IMC UC, was invited to the international workshop “When deep learning meets logic”, a virtual event sponsored by Samsung to be held in June. In its first edition,…
April, 2022.- In partnership with Coursera, the Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional de la Universidad Católica (IMC UC) will offer the Online Master’s in Data Science, which seeks to contribute to the specialized training of professionals who can master advanced data science techniques, in order to apply them later to solving concrete problems in…
March 2022.- Do Venezuelan people living or settled in Chile feel invited to participate in Chilean politics? This is the topic that the study “Como los partidos políticos sacan ventaja de las olas migrantes: Incorporación política en Chile” (How Parties Take Advantage of Immigrant Waves. Political Incorporation in Chile) seeks to address, conducted by a…
April 2022.- The IMFD Research Seminar “Scope and limits of the digital in political participation” was held in hybrid format and drew a large audience at the Campus Oriente of the Universidad Católica de Chile. These activities are coordinated by the IMFD’s Academic Direction, with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary studies and sharing experiences among…
March, 2022.- Three Fondecyt projects were awarded to researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) for 2022, whose projects address problems such as the widespread adoption and development of technologies for graph databases. A graph is a set of points or nodes interconnected with each other. As an example, a family can…
March 2022.- With the goal of actively promoting the participation of women in the work of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), the IMFD Gender Committee was created during the IV IMFD Workshop –held in January 2022– made up of: Magdalena Saldaña, Academic at the Facultad de Comunicaciones UC, IMFD researcher. Camila Vera,…
March 2022.- Fernando Rosenblatt, faculty member at the Escuela de Ciencia Política of Universidad Diego Portales and IMFD researcher, presented his research on technology and organization at the second IMFD Research Seminar. The research topic sparked a participatory dynamic and debate among attendees, both those present in person and online. The activity, organized by the…
**Santa Cruz, January 2022.-** “It was very necessary for all of us who are part of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) to come together, to reflect on what we have achieved so far, consider how we can improve, and set new challenges. That’s why we made every effort to hold our 4th…
January 2022.- The prestigious Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, features this month Marcelo Arenas, director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), in its “People of ACM” section, which selects Association members whose scientific achievements make a difference in advancing computing as a science and profession, with an interview that highlights both the…
November 2021.- With the goal of bringing girls and adolescents closer to the world of programming and technology, the Niñas Pro corporation, together with the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), held the Arduino Quest 2021. “This year we had 46 girls participating, of whom 32 reached the third phase in which they build…
January 2023.- This year Boston was the city chosen to host the Logic in Computer Science (LICS) symposium, the most important in the world in the area of logic and computer science. This is the 38th edition of this event, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics…