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...
The 2024 edition of Highlights will be held from September 16-20 at the University of Bordeaux (France). Pablo Barceló's talk 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...
September, 2024 - Generating environments, protocols and tools that give reliability to the interaction in digital environments: this is one of the biggest 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 all over the...
October, 2024.- "There is a need to broaden women's access to technology and challenge the patriarchal history of science and technology, which has viewed these disciplines as inherently male." This is the vision that drove Thelma Estrin, an American computer scientist and pioneer in applying information technology to the fields of health and...
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 objective of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data's Nuestra MemorIA Project, led by Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, DCC and IMC UC academic; Juan Reutter, DCC and IMC UC academic; Juan...
DCC UC academics and IMFD researchers, Hans Löbel and Denis Parra, traveled to Vienna, Austria, together with DCC UC academics Rodrigo Toro and Alvaro Soto to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the main meeting of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning. ...
August, 2024 - How to put the most advanced data science techniques at the service of people: this is the objective of the IMFD Innovation area, which in collaboration with the Superintendence of Social Security (SUSESO), is working on the project "Natural Language Processing for the Optimization of Claims Entry". The SUSESO...
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 area of the Semantic Web are presented. The alternate director of the IMFD and director of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile, Aidan Hogan,...
More than 9000 questions, in 26 languages and coming from 28 countries, are part of the work done for "CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark", the paper accepted in NeurIPS 2024 that has as co-author Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, IMFD researcher and academic IMC and DCC UC, together with Paula Silva, coordinator of...
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...
Diciembre, 2024.- Con el foco en el futuro de la computación y la necesidad de potenciar la representatividad e inclusión de mujeres y diversidad en el área, se realizó la XII versión de Chile Women in Computing 2024, el encuentro más importante de mujeres en el área de la computación en Chile, en el auditorio…
Noviembre, 2024.- Democracia Muerta es un ensayo del cientista político Juan Pablo Luna sobre América Latina y Chile que sostiene que los problemas que enfrentan hoy las democracias de la región no se originan en la política institucional, sino en factores estructurales mucho más profundos, que trascienden a los líderes y a las reglas del…
Felipe Bravo Márquez, IMFD researcher and academic of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile, will take over as director of the Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative (IDIA) of the FCFM. In this context, he talks to the communications teams of the DCC and IDIA in the following interview: With a...