The award honors the papers with the greatest impact presented during the last decade at the International Conference on Database Theory, whether in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contributions or practical applications. The paper selected this year is entitled "Regular Queries on Graph Databases" and, in addition to Juan Reutter, academic of the Department...
Between January 13 and 17, 2025, the Democracy and Ecology High School was held, a citizenship training initiative promoted jointly by the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy (VioDemos) and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity. The intense program included 5 days in which 32 students from...
From January 21-29, the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2025 (SICSS) was held for the second time in Chile, with the objective of expanding knowledge in computational social science, promoting interdisciplinary participation of those who belong to these areas. During seven days, keynotes, workshops and workshops were held in...
A recent study entitled "Unsupervised Framing Analysis for Social Media Discourse in Polarizing Events", by IMFD researchers Hernán Sarmiento (IMFD Innovation), 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...
Using the knowledge and advances created in academia to solve problems that affect people: this is one of the objectives of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, whose Innovation area, in alliance with Cero.ai, was recently awarded the project "Prioritization of patients on waiting lists using Artificial Intelligence"...
January 2025 - One of the most interesting challenges in the area of natural language processing (NLP) is free text recognition. This is the challenge faced by the IMFD's Innovation and Technology Transfer Department in its collaborative work with the Superintendence of Social Security (SUSESO), whose main focus was the development of a...
January, 2025 - The Association for Computing Machinery, the most prestigious group in the area of computing and informatics worldwide, highlighted Marcelo Arenas, academic of 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...
Magdalena Saldaña, academic of the Faculty of Communications PUC and IMFD researcher, has been distinguished with a prestigious award granted by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna in Austria: the "Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship". This award is given to outstanding academics with an innovative profile in the fields of communication and...
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. The aim is to...
IMFD and Cenia researcher, Felipe Bravo, is promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Chile. The academic of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and a Master's degree in Computer Science, mention in Computer Science, Civil Engineer...
[The Full Professor of the University of Chile received the news of the recognition from abroad, where he works as Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University. Baeza-Yates is one of the world's references in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, areas in which he has excelled not only for his technical contribution, but also for his focus on ethics and gender bias in technology. "This award is very satisfying because, as the saying goes: no one is a prophet in their own land," said the researcher.[:]
Magdalena Saldaña, IMFD researcher, takes over as the new Director of Research and Creation of the Faculty of Communications at the Catholic University of Chile, replacing Professor Sebastián Valenzuela, also IMFD researcher, who resigned to devote himself completely to his teaching and research work in the International Panel on the Information Environment project, which is being carried out by...
Study led by Pablo Beytía analyzed 9 thousand biographies of Chileans in Wikipedia, revealing content gaps. Only 19.2% are women and 0.2% transgender. A forum was held to present the work, with the participation of Aidan Hogan, alternate director of the IMFD and director of the DCC U. Chile, Carla Toro, Head of...
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, academic of the University of Chile and senior researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, was awarded the National Prize for Applied and Technological Sciences by the Ministry of Education. For the director of the IMFD, Juan Reutter, DCC UC academic, Ricardo "throughout his career has been an important...
The hackathon was held at Google's offices in Chile with the presence of the sponsors: Le Wagon, Kaggle and Google Cloud, in order to bring 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...