A panel of experts to address the digital skills required in the Open Science era was formed in 2018 by the OECD Global Science Forum. Marcelo Arenas, director of the IMFD and Professor at the OECD's Global Science Forum, was invited to be part of this Expert Group (EG)....
From innovations that simulate human movements to robots that perform retail audits were some of the technologies presented by international and national computer scientists at the 14th version of the COPEC UC Foundation International Seminar, which this year was dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and attracted 1,250 attendees on 22 December.
"Programming gives me a feeling of great freedom, because it requires understanding things that are asked of you, expressing them or transferring them to a code and using it to solve a problem. The fun part is that through various paths you can reach the same correct result", says Tomás Castillo (15 years old), from the Kent School, one of the participants of...
As part of the Jornadas Chilenas de Ciencia de la Computación 2018, to be held from November 5 to 9 in Santiago, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data will dedicate a full day to address, in a close way, all the lines of research that are being developed in a field as complex as emerging, such as...
One of the great scientific and technological challenges in computer science today is to maintain the security, correctness, and stability of the large digital information systems on which society increasingly depends, ranging from services to social networks, among many others. These systems generate and process gigantic volumes of data and...
The Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data lecture series, which brings together researchers from the Social Sciences and the Exact Sciences to study the large amounts of data produced by the different institutions, companies and organizations of contemporary society. In this context, the interdisciplinary lecture series begins to present research whose main objective is to...
"Equivalences for Free: Univalent Parametricity for Effective Transport" is the title of the paper by Éric Tanter, an academic from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile and research associate at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, which - carried out jointly with researchers Nicolas Tabareau and Matthieu Sozeau, from the French National Institute for...
After two days of individual competition, two of the four students who traveled to Tsukuba, Japan, representing Chile in the International Informatics Olympiad, won two bronze medals in this worldwide event sponsored by Unesco, which they attended under the auspices of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data. The four...
Based in the United States and syndicated as one of the most influential Chilean scientists today, physicist and expert in artificial intelligence, economics and big data, César Hidalgo, will visit our country and will give a talk that explores cross-cutting issues aimed at strengthening citizenship and democracy, in addition to the...
Experts from the areas of computing, statistics, political science and communications met at the I Workshop of the Millennium Institute of Foundational Research on Data, held in Machalí in August 2018. The meeting was attended by nearly 70 undergraduate and graduate students from the various areas of knowledge that make up the Institute's...
The Web is the most powerful means of communication and an amplifying mirror of ourselves, so it is essential to face it with awareness of the biases of the information and the tools to assess the quality of the data. Undoubtedly one of the most relevant is that of gender, a subject that...
Nerd Nite SCL is the monthly event where those passionate about cutting-edge topics in science and technology can find out about the latest advances in these areas. It has become one of the most interesting weekday events in Santiago to keep abreast of the latest trends in science and...
Every time a user performs a search, the data is stored on a server. The same happens with almost everything we share via e-mail, social networks or mobile networks. This information has reached such a volume that computer science is devoting a line of work to the study of new models that will allow us to...
The implications of data in our lives are widely known. We generate it every time we use our phones, surf the Web, or post our photos on online social networks. These in turn are used by various private companies and public institutions to improve our quality of life. But there are also...