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IMFD researchers are part of Stanford's list of World Top 2% scientists

Pablo Barceló, Marcelo Arenas and Domingo Mery, academics DCC-IMC UC; together with Aidan Hogan, Gonzalo Navarro, Claudio Gutiérrez and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, academics DCC UCH, and Sebastián Valenzuela, academic of the Faculty of Communications UC and researcher of NUDOS, were recognized in the latest edition of the ranking "World's Top 2% Scientists", which also highlights...

ChileWiC 2024 general registrations are now open!

ChileWiC 2024 general registrations are now open!

October 2024 - We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for ChileWiC 2024, the XII Meeting of Women in Computing. This event is a unique opportunity to share, learn and connect with women and young people in the world of computing and informatics. Throughout the meeting, you will be able to participate in talks given by women from...

IMFD researcher joins the USS School of Engineering 

IMFD researcher joins the USS School of Engineering 

As a way to enhance this area, USS incorporated Leopoldo Bertossi, senior researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, who arrived in July 2024 after his experience as Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Carleton University. Bertossi, who holds a PhD in Mathematics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,...

Community Digitalization Index developed by the Millennium Nucleus on Digital Inequalities and Opportunities (NUDOS) is launched 

Community Digitalization Index developed by the Millennium Nucleus on Digital Inequalities and Opportunities (NUDOS) is launched 

The Communal Digitalization Index (IDC), developed by the Millennium Nucleus on Digital Inequalities and Opportunities (NUDOS), with the participation of IMFD researchers Sebastián Valenzuela, an academic at the UC School of Communications, and Sergio Toro, director of the School of Government at the Universidad Mayor, measured household connectivity, its use and the...

Experts warn of increasing threats to global information environment

Experts warn of increasing threats to global information environment

A new survey of experts from the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), a scientific consortium of which the academic of the UC School of Communications and IMFD researcher, Sebastián Valenzuela, is scientific director, reveals a worrying diagnosis of the international information context. There is a...

Universidad Mayor de Santiago to host ChileWiC 2024, the most important event for women in computing in the country

Universidad Mayor de Santiago to host ChileWiC 2024, the most important event for women in computing in the country

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...

IMFD participates in the "Glion Summit of Centers", a global meeting of digital trust for research centers.
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IMFD participates in the "Glion Summit of Centers", a global meeting of digital trust for research centers.

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...

Research analyzes the biographies of Chilean men and women on Wikipedia

Research analyzes the biographies of Chilean men and women on Wikipedia

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 was awarded the National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technology.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates was awarded the National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technology.

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...

Magdalena Saldaña is the new Director of Research and Creation at the UC School of Communications.

Magdalena Saldaña is the new Director of Research and Creation at the UC School of Communications.

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...

Felipe Bravo Márquez promoted to Associate Professor at Universidad de Chile

Felipe Bravo Márquez promoted to Associate Professor at Universidad de Chile

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...

Outstanding participation of IMFD researchers and students in ICML 2024

Outstanding participation of IMFD researchers and students in ICML 2024

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. ...

IMFD Innovation collaborates with the Superintendence of Social Security in project using advanced NLP techniques

IMFD Innovation collaborates with the Superintendence of Social Security in project using advanced NLP techniques

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...