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 for 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 is why we made every effort to hold…
January 2022.- The prestigious Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, features this month Marcelo Arenas, director of the Millennium Institute for 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…
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 for 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…
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…
**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 for 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.”…
Santiago, December 2021. For the Millennium Institute for 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…
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 for 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…
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 am very proud of this, but…
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 is 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 for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and Valentina…
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 for 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…