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…
September 2024.- The hackathon was held at the Google Chile offices with the presence of the sponsors: Le Wagon, Kaggle and Google Cloud, with the aim of taking the learning and application of cloud technologies and data science to a new level in our region. The first-place winners of the hackathon were: Luis Miranda and Cristobal Vásquez, students of…
August, 2024.- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, academic at Universidad de Chile and senior researcher at the Millennium Institute 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 a…
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…
**June 2024.-** Harnessing the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) to manage, analyze, and interpret historical archives from the era of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990): this is the goal of the [Nuestra MemorIA Project](https://nuestramemoria.ing.uc.cl/) from the **Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)**, led by [Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero](https://www.ing.uc.cl/academicos-e-investigadores/jocelyn-mariel-dunstan-escudero/), faculty member at [DCC](https://dcc.ing.uc.cl/) and [IMC UC](https://imc.uc.cl/);…
July, 2024.- DCC UC academics and IMFD researchers, Hans Löbel and Denis Parra, traveled to Vienna, Austria, together with DCC UC academics Rodrigo Toro and Álvaro Soto to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the leading gathering of professionals dedicated to advancing the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning. ICML is recognized…
November, 2024.- The International Semantic Web Conference is the most important conference on the semantic web at a global level: it is the place where the main advances in the field of the Semantic Web are presented. The IMFD’s alternate director and director of the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad de Chile, Aidan…
November, 2024.- More than 9,000 questions, in 26 languages and from 28 countries, are part of the work carried out for “CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark”, the paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024 co-authored by Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, IMFD researcher and IMC and DCC UC academic, along with Paula Silva, IMFD communications coordinator. NeurIPS…
December, 2024.- With a focus on the future of computing and the need to strengthen the representation and inclusion of women and diversity in the field, the 12th edition of Chile Women in Computing 2024, the most important gathering of women in computing in Chile, was held in the auditorium of Universidad Mayor in Providencia. “This…
November, 2024.- Democracia Muerta is an essay by political scientist Juan Pablo Luna about Latin America and Chile that argues that the problems currently facing democracies in the region do not originate in institutional politics, but rather in much deeper structural factors that transcend leaders and the rules of the political game. The chronic weakening…
**November, 2024.-** Felipe Bravo Márquez, IMFD researcher and academic at the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad de Chile, will take on the role of director of the Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative (IDIA) of the FCFM. In this context, he spoke with the communications teams of DCC and IDIA in the following interview:…
November, 2024.- Pablo Barceló, Marcelo Arenas, and Domingo Mery, DCC–IMC UC faculty members; along with Aidan Hogan, Gonzalo Navarro, Claudio Gutiérrez, and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, DCC UCH faculty members, and Sebastián Valenzuela, faculty member at the Facultad de Comunicaciones UC and researcher at NUDOS, were recognized in the latest edition of the “World’s Top 2% Scientists”…
October 2024 – We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for ChileWiC 2024, the XII Women in Computing Gathering. This event is a unique opportunity to share, learn, and connect with women and young people from the world of computer science and computing. Throughout the event, you will be able to attend talks…
As a way to strengthen this area, USS brought on Leopoldo Bertossi, senior researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), who joined in July 2024 following his experience as Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Carleton University. Bertossi, who holds a PhD in Mathematics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), is also…
The Communal Digitalization Index (IDC), developed by the Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Digital Inequalities and Opportunities (NUDOS), and in which IMFD researchers Sebastián Valenzuela, academic at the Facultad de comunicaciones UC, and Sergio Toro, director of the Escuela de Gobierno de la Universidad Mayor, participated, measured connectivity in households, its use in schools,…