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**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 for 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…

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,…

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…

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 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, throughout his career Ricardo “has been…

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….