The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) was invited to take part in a first debate on the possibility of lowering the age of citizenship to 16 and the age for voting in municipal elections to 14, represented by its researcher Cristián Pérez-Muñoz, an academic at the Institute of Political Science of the…
Data (lots of data), pizza, and beer were the essential ingredients of the first Data, Beer & Pizza, a gathering that seeks —in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere— to spread awareness about the reach of data science across its most diverse fields of application. The event, attended by more than 100 people, was organized by the…
It can all start with a simple “Like” on a Facebook comment, so that this first approval, given freely and autonomously by a user to a message that matches their interests, becomes part of a chain of events that ends with that person marking a line on one of the millions of ballots that will…
This Friday, April 12, directors and researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) will make their first official visit of the year to Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), an institution associated with our center. Serving as researchers at IMFD are the UdeC Vice-Rector for Research and Development, Andrea Rodríguez; the director of…
In an event that brought together multiple stakeholders from the logistics sector, the Undersecretary of Transportation, José Luis Domínguez, launched the new IDEA project (Integration of Data and Statistics for Foreign Trade), which will use advanced mathematical techniques and multiple data sources to improve the quality of foreign trade statistics. The Millennium Institute for Foundational…
A new recognition honoring his professional career was awarded to Ricardo Baeza Yates, professor at the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of the U. Chile and senior researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The academic was distinguished in Catalonia with the Salvà i Campillo Award for Outstanding Personality. This award,…
Taking advantage of the clear synergy between the research conducted by both institutions, on March 15th researchers from the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS) and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) met for the first time to discuss possible collaborations that would help expand data-driven science. In MAS’s case, the focus is…
Denis Parra, professor at the Department of Computer Science of Universidad Católica (DCC) and researcher at our institute, took part last March in the ACM IUI 2019 Conference in Los Angeles, United States. This was the 24th edition of this annual event, called “Intelligent User Interfaces,” a conference whose main topics are artificial intelligence and…
“Is technology forcing us to live increasingly alone?” That was the question that served as a prologue to the panel “Alone and hyperconnected, the paradox of our times,” one of the topics featured at Congreso Futuro 2019, on Friday, January 18. On that stage was Bárbara Poblete, associate researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational…
Chile now has representatives for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). After an intense week of competition, on Wednesday, January 16th the names of the four students -two of them high school students- who will represent Chile at IOI 2019, to be held from August 4 to 11, 2019 in the Republic of Azerbaijan, were…
The digitization of all data produced by humankind through technology (from the earliest record-keeping systems to the present day) has taken less than 30 years: while in the mid-1980s less than 1% of information was in digital format, today that figure reaches 99%. Its magnitude is such that digital information today is comparable to that…
Representatives from the most diverse disciplines were convened on January 4 to a lunch at the Palacio de La Moneda, with President Sebastián Piñera; the Minister of Science, Andrés Couve, and Undersecretary Carolina Torrealba. The meeting, which brought together nine Chilean scientists, aimed to generate a dialogue on how to strengthen science, technology, and innovation…
With the word “gato” (cat) in different languages and images of felines, Jorge Pérez, Computer Science academic at Universidad de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), kicked off his presentation at the VI International Conference on Scientific Culture at Universidad Andrés Bello, an event open to the general…
A panel of experts to address the digital skills required in the era of Open Science was formed in 2018 by the OECD’s Global Science Forum. Marcelo Arenas, director of the IMFD and Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Universidad Católica, was invited to be part of this project’s Expert Group (EG),…
From innovations simulating human movement to robots conducting retail audits, these were some of the technologies presented by international and national computer scientists at the 14th edition of the Fundación COPEC UC International Seminar, which this year was dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and drew 1,250 attendees on November 22. “Chile has a pending debt when…