June 3, 2020.– A new advantage has been added to the olfactory kit for Covid-19 developed by the Centro de Aromas y Sabores de DICTUC, at the Escuela de Ingeniería of the Pontificia Universidad Católica: the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) has developed a computational platform that analyzes test results in real…
April 14, 2020.– Over the past two weeks, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Office of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) has been working full time to develop software that would allow health authorities to automatically anonymize the sensitive data collected from patients and suspected COVID-19 cases. This program fulfills one of…
Often, the different disciplines that coexist in the field of computer science—such as database theory and machine learning, to name a few—do not intersect. This is despite the great value that interdisciplinarity holds in the world of data science. This dilemma is well known to researcher Pablo Barceló, who is deputy director of the Millennium…
April 30, 2020.– Researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), together with collaborators, published an article today, April 30, on Medium, in which they expose the seriousness that the lack of access to epidemiological information represents for Chile, the difficulties that other countries have faced in this matter, along with examples…
April 21, 2020.– Identifying which are the most complex places in terms of COVID-19 contagion risk or detecting the emergence of zones where a greater concentration of infected people begins to occur are critical tools that can help determine containment measures. This is the goal of one of the projects coordinated by IMFD associate researcher…
Having information based on rigorous scientific evidence to contribute to better decision-making has proven to be a critical element in combating the spread of the coronavirus globally and also in Chile. That is why, convened by the Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, Andrés Couve, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)…
Between March 2 and 6, a delegation of 11 people, including representatives from academic centers, NGOs, and public officials, visited New Zealand to learn about that country’s experience in building a longitudinal, anonymized administrative database that is available for applied research and for the design and evaluation of public policies. The mission is unprecedented in…
NEW DATA: NEWS WITH FOUNDATION In the press: Fake news (Emol TV) Sebastián Valenzuela: “Fake news and disinformation can sometimes be ‘profitable,’ meaning that if I manage to generate a very visceral reaction in someone—usually against something and in favor of something else—they become a political tool. If used that way, it makes people polarize,…
He is the author of more than 60 papers and has been part of the program committees of the most important conferences in databases and logic in computer science, such as ACM PODS, SIGMOD, ICDT, LICS, and STACS. He was also PC chair of the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) in 2019. His field…
Denis Parra, Computer Science academic at Universidad Católica and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), has been working for years in a less explored area within artificial intelligence (AI): its application in art and creative processes in general. -What impact is the use of AI having on art and creative…
More women among the competitors and two venues -Santiago and Concepción-, where the Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI) 2019 edition was held simultaneously. These were the highlights of the national final held on Saturday, January 11, at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Campus San Joaquín, Santiago) and at Universidad de Concepción. Of the 40 high school…
Jorge Pérez, researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and Computer Science professor at Universidad de Chile, has been working since 2019 on BETO: a neural network model that enables computational processing of natural language. Together with José Cañete (24) and Gabriel Chaperón (25) -both Computer Engineering students at U. de…
“We are interested in thinking about how to systematize citizen participation and look at the different initiatives that exist in this direction,” said Marcelo Arenas, director of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academic at the Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación (DCC) of the U. Católica, who was one of…
NEW DATA: NEWS WITH FOUNDATION In the press: CIPER Chile / October 18: the bonfire of inequalities Juan Pablo Luna: “The Metro has shortened the physical and temporal distances between the unequal. It has possibly contributed to politicizing (making more socially visible) the enormous inequalities that continue to mark the lives of those who live…
Jorge Pérez and Bárbara Poblete, researchers at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and faculty members of the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at Universidad de Chile, took part last week in the NeurIPS 2019 conference in Vancouver, Canada. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is one of the most prestigious conferences in…