October, 2024.- A new expert survey by the International Panel on the Information Environment (International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)), a scientific consortium of which the UC Faculty of Communications academic and IMFD researcher, Sebastián Valenzuela, is scientific director, reveals a worrying diagnosis of the international information context. There is a significant increase in…
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 computing technology to the fields of health and medicine, who throughout…
September, 2024.- Creating 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 information technology. 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 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 Google‘s offices in Chile 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 winners of first place in the hackathon were: Luis…
August, 2024.- A study led by Pablo Beytía analyzed 9 thousand biographies of Chileans on Wikipedia, revealing content gaps. Only 19.2% are women and 0.2% transgender. During the presentation of the work, a forum was held, in which Aidan Hogan, alternate director of IMFD and director of the DCC U. Chile, Carla Toro, Training and…
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, throughout his career Ricardo “has been a…
August, 2024.- Magdalena Saldaña, IMFD researcher, takes on the role of new Director of Research and Creation at the Faculty of Communications of the Universidad Católica de Chile, replacing Professor Sebastián Valenzuela, also an IMFD researcher, who resigned from the position to fully dedicate himself to his teaching and research work on the International Panel…
**August, 2024.-** IMFD and Cenia researcher [Felipe Bravo](https://uchile.cl/portafolio-academico/portafolio-academico/academico/64278) has been promoted to Associate Professor at Universidad de Chile. The faculty member of the [Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile](https://www.dcc.uchile.cl/) holds a PhD in Computer Science from the [University of Waikato](https://www.waikato.ac.nz/), New Zealand, and a Master’s in Sciences with a mention…
July, 2024.- DCC UC faculty members and IMFD researchers Hans Löbel and Denis Parra traveled to Vienna, Austria, together with DCC UC faculty members Rodrigo Toro and Álvaro Soto to attend the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the leading gathering of professionals dedicated to advancing the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning….
August, 2024.- How to put the most advanced data science techniques at the service of the people: this is the goal of the IMFD Innovation area, which in collaboration with the Superintendencia de Seguridad Social (SUSESO), is working on the project “Natural Language Processing for the Optimization of Claims Intake.” SUSESO is the autonomous State…
July, 2024.- Three IMFD works are featured in the recent edition of Communications of the ACM: Latin American Regional Special Section. The special section, coordinated by Fabio Kon (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sebastian Uchitel (University of Buenos Aires), and IMFD researcher and DCC UCH academic, Barbara Poblete, seeks to present the region’s most interesting…
**July 2024.-** The master’s thesis work “Trie-compressed Intersectable Sets” by Juan Pablo Castillo, PhD student at UC, IMFD, and former master’s student at UTFSM, is a finalist in the Latin American Master’s Thesis Competition of the CLEI 2024 conference, which seeks to recognize and promote the work of Ibero-American students who have recently completed their…
June, 2024.- Languages are the heart and soul of cultural identity and communication, and there is no place where this is more evident than in the vibrant landscape of Latin America and the Caribbean: with this idea, the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language…
July, 2024.- Starting July 19th, the alternate director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academic at the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile, Aidan Hogan, took over as the new director of DCC U. Chile, a role that will last for a period of two years….