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Felipe Bravo (36), researcher at IMFD and assistant professor at the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación at the U. de Chile, was one of the young researchers, at the national level, who were awarded a Fondecyt de Iniciación 2020. This fund seeks to encourage and strengthen the development of excellent scientific and technological research…

“The Web of Data” is the title of the book written by the DCC U. de Chile professor and Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) researcher, Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos, Aidan Hogan, published by Springer, which addresses the topic of the web of data in a broader way. “This book provides…

“We wanted mainly girls and teenage girls to take part, but we were surprised by the percentage of participation from young women, close to 80% of the total. Initially we thought it would be hard to reach the audience we were looking for…” says Jazmine Maldonado, president of Niñas Pro: an organization created and led…

A text classifier based on deep neural networks that helps to automatically categorize different types of medical articles on a large scale: ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands. This is the work of Andrés Carvallo, a PhD researcher at the Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación (DCC) de la U. Católica, funded by the…

What are the theoretical reasons that explain why an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm makes certain decisions and not others? This is not a trivial matter, since, in practice, these reasons are what lead that algorithm to favor one candidate over another in a bank loan approval process, for example. They can also tip the balance…

More than 45,000 tests to detect COVID-19 through smell have been processed, from June to date, by the web platform developed by the Technology Transfer Unit of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The Rapid Olfactory Kit (KOR), created by the Centro de Aromas y Sabores de DICTUC, is easy to apply…

Santiago, September 2020.– Starting in 2007, Uruguay launched a plan for every student to have a personal computer for their own use. Since then, the Plan Ceibal has achieved WiFi network coverage in 100% of educational centers, has delivered more than 2 million notebooks to schoolchildren, devices for teachers, laptops in libraries, videoconference rooms, and…

September 2, 2020.– Coming into contact from the very first year with real, concrete challenges in data science is one of the key advantages that students of the new Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science Engineering will have. This program was recently made official by Universidad Católica, and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data…

“Data is a renewable resource, just as much as the sun and the wind.” This is how the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, described the value of digital information at the World Economic Forum in January 2020, an occasion on which she highlighted the wealth and untapped opportunities that exist within…

Since July 2020, associate researcher Jorge Pérez, professor at the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of Universidad de Chile, took office as deputy director of that unit, led by academic Cecilia Bastarrica. Until his appointment, the academic served as director of the DCC’s Communications area. Pérez holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universidad Católica,…

The literature that exists in Chile was more or less conclusive: it indicated that, in general, evangelicals were not interested in politics. “Historically, they did not get involved because it was a ‘forbidden’ topic. But what one begins to see in recent years, in the country, is that not only are there more evangelical politicians…

Santiago, September 2020.– Chile now has its representatives for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) for high school students, which will take place between September 13 and 19. This competition was originally set to be held in Singapore, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic it will be held online. The 12 winners of the Chilean…

Last month, the researcher and expert in data science and artificial intelligence (AI), Ricardo Baeza-Yates, received a call he was not expecting: he was informed that he had been chosen, along with other experts, to join the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council of the Spanish state. This is a consultative body whose role is to advise…

Marcelo Arenas and Cristián Riveros, researchers at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and faculty members of the Computer Science Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica, received the “ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award”, for the paper “Efficient Logspace Classes for Enumeration, Counting, and Uniform Generation,” which they wrote together with authors Luis…