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The paper “The Missing Link: Identifying Digital Intermediaries in E-Government” was awarded the Edgardo Catterberg Award for the best paper presented at the WAPOR Latinoamérica conference, one of the most important academic gatherings on public opinion studies in the region. The research team includes IMFD researchers Sergio Toro, director of the School of Government at…

Building, understanding and controlling artificial intelligence models without needing programming knowledge: this is the goal of DashAI, the interactive, open-source tool that was selected in the FONDEF IDeA I+D 2025 competition. “These funds aim to boost the development of technologies that generate impacts on the country at a productive, economic, and social level,” explains Felipe…

Disruption and consolidation in communication research: that is the theme of the 75th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), held in Denver, United States, which features the active participation of scholars from the Facultad de Comunicaciones de la Universidad Católica and IMFD researchers, Magdalena Saldaña and Sebastián Valenzuela. The researchers will present their…

Éric Tanter, academic at the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile and associate researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), received an Inria International Chair, a program that fosters collaboration between prominent international researchers and the French research center, one of the leading science and technology research…

Column published in La Tercera, by Naim Bro, academic at the School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and IMFD researcher Last week, Plaza Italia underwent an important change: the seven lanes of the traditional roundabout were removed, giving way to an esplanade connecting Balmaceda, Forestal, and Bustamante parks. At the same time, the eternal controversy…

With more than 50 attendees, the Workshop Archives, Data and Justice: Interdisciplinary Experience in the Investigation of Colonia Dignidad was held. Organized by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) in collaboration with the National Institute for Human Rights (INDH), the event focused on the potential of massive data analysis of the Colonia Dignidad…

ICML is one of the most important gatherings in the world for researchers dedicated to the study and advancement of machine learning, one of the essential branches of artificial intelligence. The 2025 edition will take place in Canada and will feature the participation of several papers, two of them developed by IMFD’s director, Juan Reutter,…

With a productive meeting between the IMFD Innovation area and IMFD researchers, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) kicked off work on the StartUp Ciencia project, awarded for 2025. The main topics addressed at the meeting were how to put the research and technological development produced by IMFD researchers at the service of…

Gabriela Arriagada Bruneau is an Assistant Professor with dual affiliation at the Institute of Applied Ethics (IEA) and the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering (IMC) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a Young Researcher at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA). Claudia López works as an Assistant Professor at Universidad Técnica…

It was precisely in Sydney, Australia, where Marcelo Mendoza, DCC UC academic and principal researcher at CENIA and associate researcher at Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), presented two new techniques for language models like GPT-4o, Claude and Gemini to extract key data from news articles and formulate questions and answers like a human…

Applications are open until April 15 for the first free Clinical Natural Language Processing course for students and professionals from health and engineering fields in Chile at: https://plnclinico.imfd.cl/ “One of the most important challenges when trying to use different artificial intelligence tools in the healthcare field is that most of patients’ clinical information is written…

The city of Santiago, Chile hosted for the first time the KHIPU 2025 conference, the most important artificial intelligence gathering in Latin America, which took place from March 10 to 14, 2025. This event brought together more than 500 attendees from academia, industry, and other leaders in the field, becoming a crucial platform for artificial…