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 Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), who took…
In early October, researchers from the Millennium Institute 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 presentation…
Margarita Bugueño, a Master’s student in Computer Engineering Sciences at Universidad Federico Santa María, and young researcher at IMFD, recently won the SIMAH -SocIaL Media and Harrasment- competition, held at the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), in Würzburg, Germany. What did the competition involve? Solving an artificial intelligence challenge for the automatic detection of…
Guillermo Pattillo, director of the National Statistics Institute (INE), was the featured guest in a new installment of the Open Seminars held by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) on August 30. At the end of his presentation, Pattillo discussed data science and how it would help the work carried out by INE,…
Today the Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, Andrés Couve, introduced the Committee of Experts that will support the government’s work on drafting a National Artificial Intelligence Policy, due by April 2020. 10 specialists joined today the effort commissioned by President Sebastián Piñera to the Ministry of Science to drive forward an action plan…
“It is of the utmost importance to have signed this agreement, particularly because of the multidisciplinary component of our institute, where political science plays a fundamental role. With the data, experience, and people who work at Servel, we hope to have a very strong collaboration,” said Marcelo Arenas, director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research…
Undergraduate and master’s students, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, researchers, and government and academic authorities. All of them –more than 60 people in total-, were part of the audience that gathered on Wednesday, July 31, at the San Joaquín Campus of Universidad Católica, during the visit by Iniciativa Científica Milenio -an entity under the Ministry of…
The major analyses of the problems, phenomena, and changes that society is experiencing today are being generated through data-based research. That is why the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) has been running the Data Workshop for Journalists and Communicators for the past three years, a free initiative that seeks to bring applied data…
A national artificial intelligence development strategy. That is the goal being pursued by a group of more than 70 scientists and academics from different Chilean universities, who were convened by the Future Challenges Commission of the Senate, chaired by Senator Guido Girardi. Among them is Álvaro Soto, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science…
In Chile, more than 50% of people show an insufficient level in basic competencies, such as text comprehension, the ability to understand information contained in charts, graphs, or maps, or the ability to perform arithmetic operations, such as estimating time based on schedules. Most concerning is that this picture has not changed much between 1998…
The National Statistics Institute (INE), together with the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), signed a cooperation agreement that will allow them to pool resources, capabilities, and efforts to develop matters of joint interest in scientific and technological research related to databases, semantic web, algorithms, data mining, artificial intelligence, big data, and network behavior,…
“Vean a esas personas que están ahí. ¿Qué tienen en común? Lo que las une es que esas personas no existen, no son reales. Un computador, pixel a pixel, las dibujó. Parte de lo que les quiero contar hoy es cómo hace un computador, para crear esto. Les voy a enseñar que no es tan…
“At our foundation, we are convinced that the way we can contribute to the discussion on the country’s priorities and to the creation of more and better public policies is through evidence. Even more so if it comes from analysis of the highest quality, based on data, and whose results have the potential to be…
“Exposing the president: the political angle of a natural disaster in Chile” is the name of the paper by Magdalena Saldaña —a faculty member at the School of Communications of Universidad Católica and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)— which was chosen as the winner at the International Symposium on Online…