April 2021.- With a pioneering research effort considered a fundamental piece in the study of the “fake news” problem, the study “Information credibility on Twitter” was awarded at the most important international scientific conference on Web research for the impact of its work ten years after its original publication. In February 2010, following the magnitude…
“The Marriage of Univalence and Parametricity” is the title of the paper by Éric Tanter, researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and professor at the Department of Computer Science (DCC), together with Inria researchers Nicolas Tabareau and Matthieu Sozeau, which was published in the Journal of the ACM (JACM), the…
January 2021.- In a year marked by the health emergency, data management and use became especially relevant for all societies. For this reason, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) set out to keep one of its spaces open to the general community, promoting debate on the importance of data in different areas….
February 2021.- After an extremely challenging year, on Saturday, January 30th the 9th Chilean Computer Science Olympiad (OCI) was held, the country’s leading computer programming competition, from which 12 national champions emerged: seven bronze medals, four silver, and one gold. At this event, which in 2021 was held online due to the health emergency, 87…
Santiago, January 2021.- Two regular Fondecyt projects were awarded to researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), in which the interdisciplinary work of the teams stands out, as well as the use of data to study topics relevant and pressing for Chilean society today. Magdalena Saldaña, researcher at the Millennium Institute…
January, 2021.– The impact of artificial intelligence on our society: this is the theme of the XII Society and Information Technologies Meeting, co-organized by El Periodista and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), which will be broadcast live on Monday, January 25 and Tuesday, January 26, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00…
December 2020.- For Leopoldo Bertossi, Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, we are living fast and fruitful times in informatics and computer science. “It is a very interesting time to work in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science: there is much to be done and the impact…
January 2021.- Logistics is one of the areas in which data generation and the need to manage it, in order to improve efficiency at all levels, becomes indispensable. In this context, the Conecta Logística initiative, from the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications and Corfo, recently presented a new tool for accessing updated and current information…
December, 2020.- The eighth edition of the Latin America Research Awards held by Google Research, selected 22 frontier research projects from various Latin American countries, to which it awarded funding. In the case of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), the recognized work is that carried out by Dustin Cobas, PhD researcher,…
Santiago, January 2021.- Putting the historical information and knowledge of Chile’s republican trajectory at the service of the constitutional process: that is the goal of the Letelier project, an initiative that is digitizing the text of all the records of the National Congress from 1810 to the present day. The work, led by Naim Bro,…
December, 2020.- Andrea Rodríguez Tastets, Vice-Rector for Research and Development at the Universidad de Concepción and associate researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), has been elected as the new President of the Research Committee of the CRUCH. The vice-rector stated that, in this new role, she will build on the…
November 2020.- Based on evaluations carried out by undergraduate students, the Universidad de Chile presented awards to its outstanding faculty members during the institution’s 178th anniversary. With a strong emphasis on the conditions brought about by the health situation, the event highlighted the work of faculty members who strove to overcome this challenge. Aidan Hogan,…
November 2020.– Communications of the ACM is one of the most relevant scientific publications internationally in the field of computing. It gathers the advances and emerging topics in computer science, new trends in IT and applied research, discoveries and innovations, with an emphasis on cutting-edge science that paves the way toward new fields of exploration….
November 2020.– The development of a self-administered version of the Rapid Olfactory Kit (KOR) is the next step to be taken by the Centro de Aromas y Sabores de DICTUC and the Technology Transfer Unit of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), thanks to funding awarded through the Startup Ciencia initiative of…
“When the Arduino kit arrived, I felt excited. I was afraid to open it, I did not know if something was going to break. But when I finished the project I felt the satisfaction of having achieved something,” says Isidora Lemunao, who developed a piggy bank that opens to store coins using a remote sensor….