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…
Between November 12 and 15, 2019, in Santa Cruz, VI Region, the workshop Emerging Challenges in Databases and AI Research (DBAI) was held. This gathering, which brought together 65 researchers in the field of databases and artificial intelligence from various parts of the world, was organized by Flagship Project 3 of the Millennium Institute for…
Its name is Khipu and it is the most important event in Artificial Intelligence (AI) ever held in Latin America, explains Jorge Pérez, researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and faculty member at the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at Universidad de Chile. Pérez was one of the guests at…
This is a highly competitive award program in the field of technology: 25 awards were granted out of a total of 670 applications. The only two awarded to Chile went to Bárbara Poblete and Gonzalo Navarro, both academics at the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of the U. de Chile, and researchers at the Millennium…
This is the most important conference on the topic of the semantic web, called ISWC, International Semantic Web Conference. “It has to do with transforming the web into a database. For this purpose, technology, protocols, and languages have been developed,” explains Juan Reutter, researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), who…
In early October, researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) took part in the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE’19) conference, in Segovia, Spain. Gonzalo Navarro, who is also a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at Universidad de Chile, attended as an “invited speaker.” His…