Column by Carla Alberti and Diego Diaz in La Tercera, December 15, 2025 José Antonio Kast’s sweeping victory not only implies a change of power, but also confirms the decline of the dictatorship as the organizing axis of Chilean politics. This presidential election is the second in which the winning party is different from the…
In 2025, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) launched “Hablemos de Datos, los fundamentos de la inteligencia artificial” (“Let’s Talk About Data, the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence”), a podcast and radio program aimed at bringing citizens closer to the core topics of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) across different areas of social,…
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading scientific and educational computing society, announced today the selection of 61 new Distinguished Members for 2025. Among the professionals recognized is Pablo Barceló, a faculty member at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), honored for his…
Column by Naim Bro, Professor, School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Researcher / Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). I live in Santiago, but I vote in Romeral, a small town in the Maule region known for its cherries. Every time I go back, the contrast is still striking: the conversations I hear in…
More than two hundred attendees arrived at the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile to take part in ChileWiC 2025, a space designed to bring together women students, academics, and professionals from the fields of Computing and STEM. With the goal of sharing experiences, strengthening support networks, and making the…
The interdisciplinary project was recently presented at the 5th Workshop on Archaeology and Isotopes in Southern South America How can useful information, such as relationships and connections, be organized and extracted from hundreds of archaeological datings? This is the problem addressed by ArKG: the interdisciplinary project that brings together researchers from the School of Anthropology,…
The latest edition of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), the world’s most important conference on the Semantic Web, featured notable participation from researchers of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Sebastián Ferrada, faculty member at the Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative (IDIA), was part of the organizing committee and presented two papers…
Knowing how many we are, how we’re doing in health, in education, how we vote, what our origins are: There is a general consensus that this data should be accessible to those seeking to create public policy, innovate, research, study, and much more. But, how do we safeguard the privacy of individual data in a…
As part of the Jornadas Chilenas de Computación 2025, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) held a new edition of the Data Foundations School, a training space aimed at sharing tools and applied knowledge in data science, which this year focused on data privacy and RAGs. The session included two main blocks. In…
How artists and designers develop systematic approaches to visual language: this is the question that guides the work behind “45 Symbols: Clay to Code”, the book in which Ricardo Vega takes part, professor at the UC School of Design, collaborator at DiLab (UC School of Engineering), and PhD student at IMFD. Directed by designer and…
One of the missions of the unit he will lead is to promote the informed and responsible use of AI in research, driving interdisciplinary initiatives on its development, impacts, and applications to address the most pressing social challenges. Pablo Barceló, who until a few months ago was director of the Institute of Mathematical and Computational…
The Universidad de Concepción has opened the 2026 application period for the Master’s in Data Science for Innovation (MACI), a pioneering program in Chile that combines training in data science, innovation, and entrepreneurship to transform the reality of public and private organizations. The challenge of leading this initiative falls to José Fuentes Sepúlveda, researcher at…
With surprise and great joy, Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates, DCC academic and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), received recognition as Doctor Honoris Causa awarded by the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) at the beginning of the year, formally conferred at a ceremony on October 17….
One of the most important challenges for the generation of computer scientists working with artificial intelligence models is deciphering the well-known “black box”: computational systems whose internal workings are not visible, and therefore, not auditable. To address this problem, Marcelo Arenas, academic at IMC and DCC UC and researcher at IMFD presented a proposal in…
Looking back on its history and the milestones that have defined its contribution to the country, the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile commemorated half a century since the creation of the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación (DCC), a pioneering unit in training, research, and technological development that has…