**Santiago, December 2021** – The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society, has named Marcelo Arenas, director of the **Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)**, academic at the UC Department of Computer Science and at the UC Institute for Mathematical and Computational Engineering, among its “Distinguished Members.” ACM…
Santiago, December 2021. For the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), students are one of the most important pillars for the development of cutting-edge research, as well as for projects that foster interdisciplinary work. To strengthen the relationship with all students, the IMFD Research and Academic Training Department held the 1st IMFD Student Meeting…
As part of the Jornadas Chilenas de Ciencias de la Computación 2021, the 4th School of Foundational Research on Data was held, featuring six talks presenting some of the research currently being carried out at IMFD. Jorge Salas, PhD Student at the University of Edinburgh, gave a talk on centrality measures titled How do we…
December 2021.- Resuming in-person activities after the pandemic, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) held, in hybrid format, its first IMFD Research Seminar: “Liquid Democracy: an Algorithmic Perspective,” presented by Pablo Barceló, alternate director of the IMFD and director of the IMC UC. In the presentation, Barceló explores the potential functioning of the…
November, 2021.- IMFD researcher and academic at the School of Communications of the P. Universidad Católica, Magdalena Saldaña, was named as one of the three associate editors of the journal Digital Journalism, one of the most important publications in the field of journalism research at the international level. “I’m very proud of this, but honestly…
With the master’s thesis “Model Interpretability Through the Lens of Computational Complexity”, the graduate student from the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile (DCC) and IMFD researcher, Bernardo Subercaseaux obtained first place at the Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI). “This research aims to study how “interpretable” different Machine…
“What a nasty girl” could be a comment from any social network, but it’s also the title of one of the recent studies by Magdalena Saldaña, an academic at the Facultad de Comunicaciones de la P. Universidad Católica de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and Valentina Proust, professor…
An innovative architecture for graph neural networks and a tool that allows users to specify explanations for artificial intelligence systems are two IMFD papers that will be presented at NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), one of the most relevant conferences in computing and computer science held internationally, which this year will take place virtually in…
A new opportunity to take part in the most important national competitive programming championship: starting this November 12, the Olimpiada Chilena de Informática, OCI, will be welcoming students from 7th grade through 12th grade who are interested in this challenging competition, which will take place in a remote, online format. “The OCI seeks to spark…
The Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) will hold, for the fourth consecutive year, the Foundations of Data School, under the umbrella of the Jornadas Chilenas de Ciencias de la Computación 2021. This year, our school will have a central focus: showcasing the research carried out by our faculty members together with their students,…
October 2021.- Disinformation and fake news have become a relevant problem for all societies around the world. In Chile, notes Marcelo Mendoza, faculty member at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and IMFD researcher, “we believe that disinformation has permeated our society, but its impact needs to be measured. We also haven’t measured the effect that…
October 2021.- For his leadership qualities, moral standing, and technical preparation, the Instituto de Ingenieros de Chile awarded the Ismael Valdés Valdés Award to Fernando Florenzano Hernández, a faculty member of the Departamento de Computación de la P. Universidad Católica de Chile and a former master’s student at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data…
September 2021.- With more than 400 participants, the successful series for older adults: Learning to Coexist in the Digital World came to a close, organized by the Research Office of the P. Universidad Católica as part of the 60+ Científica tu casa program, in which the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) collaborated. This…
**September 2021.-** With more than 110 people taking part in simultaneous online talks, the **Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)** held its **III Workshop**. The event showcased progress on research conducted under the [**Flagship Projects**](https://imfd.cl/proyectos-e-investigaciones/), which channel the interdisciplinary work of this research center, recognized for its frontier research in data science combining computer…
**Santiago, September 2021.-** Turning Chile into a hub for artificial intelligence development for Latin America and the world is the main goal of the new **National Center for Research in Artificial Intelligence**, awarded this Wednesday, September 8th. This project is part of the Basal Centers of Excellence of the [Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and…