Between January 13 and 17, 2025, the Democracy and Ecology Secondary School took place, a civic education initiative jointly promoted by the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy (VioDemos) and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity. The intensive program spanned 5 days in which 32 students from public and private schools across 14…
From January 21 to 29, the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2025 (SICSS) took place for the second time in Chile, with the goal of expanding knowledge in computational social sciences, promoting interdisciplinary participation among those belonging to these fields. Over seven days, keynotes, workshops, and tutorials were held at the San Joaquín Campus…
A recent study titled “Unsupervised Framing Analysis for Social Media Discourse in Polarizing Events,” by IMFD researchers Hernán Sarmiento (Innovación IMFD), Jorge Ortiz (DCC UCH), Felipe Bravo-Márquez (DCC UCH) and Sebastián Valenzuela (PUC), together with Marcelo Santos (UDP) and Ricardo Córdova, was published in the prestigious journal ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), of the…
Using the knowledge and advances created in academia to solve problems that affect people: this is one of the goals of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), whose Innovation area, in partnership with Cero.ai, recently won the project “Prioritization of patients on waiting lists using Artificial Intelligence” from the Ministry of Health….
January 2025.- One of the most interesting challenges in the field of natural language processing (NLP) is free text recognition. This is the challenge faced by the Innovation and Technology Transfer Division of IMFD in collaborative work with the Superintendencia de Seguridad Social (SUSESO), which had as its main focus the optimization of claims filing…
January, 2025.- The Association for Computing Machinery, the most prestigious organization in the field of computing and computer science worldwide, recognized Marcelo Arenas, academic at the Department of Computer Science UC and the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering UC, and IMFD researcher, as a Fellow of the ACM. This award recognizes the top 1%…
December, 2024.- Magdalena Saldaña, faculty member at the Facultad de Comunicaciones PUC and IMFD researcher, has been honored with a prestigious recognition awarded by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna in Austria: the “Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship.” This award is granted to outstanding academics with an innovative profile in the fields of…
August, 2024.- For the first time in its history, the most prestigious international conference in data science, ACM SIGMOD/PODS, was held in Latin America, with Chile as the host country. One of the sections of this important conference is the presentation of cutting-edge prototypes of new data management systems. What is sought in these prototypes…
Although his beginnings as a student were in the Electrical Engineering program at Universidad de Chile, since when he entered the Common Plan he had not even seen a computer, it was during the progress of these first years that he became interested in computing, studying in parallel for a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s…
August, 2024.- IMFD and Cenia researcher Felipe Bravo is promoted to Associate Professor at Universidad de Chile. The academic from the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and a Master’s degree in Sciences with a specialization in…
August, 2024.- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, academic at Universidad de Chile and senior researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), was awarded the National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technology, granted by the Ministry of Education. For the director of IMFD, Juan Reutter, academic at DCC UC, Ricardo “throughout his career has been…
August, 2024.- A study led by Pablo Beytía analyzed 9,000 biographies of Chileans on Wikipedia, revealing content gaps. Only 19.2% are women and 0.2% are transgender. At the presentation of the study, a forum was held, in which Aidan Hogan, alternate director of the IMFD and director of the DCC U. Chile, Carla Toro, Head…
October, 2024.- “It is necessary to expand women’s access to technology and challenge the patriarchal history of science and technology, which has considered these disciplines as inherently masculine.” This is the vision that drove Thelma Estrin, an American computer scientist, a pioneer in applying computer technology to the fields of health and medicine, who throughout…
September, 2024.- Generating environments, protocols and tools that provide reliability to interaction in digital environments: this is one of the greatest challenges currently facing the world of computing and informatics. Digital trust is the main focus of the “Glion Summit of Centers”, held in Switzerland, which brought together leaders from 20 research centers around the…
The 2024 edition of Highlights will take place from September 16 to 20 at the Universidad de Bordeaux (France). The talk to be given by Pablo Barceló will cover three case studies that highlight the key role of logic in improving the understanding of modern machine learning architectures. The Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique…