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The award honors the papers with the greatest impact presented during the last decade at the International Conference on Database Theory, either in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contributions or practical applications. The paper selected this year is titled "Regular Queries on Graph Databases" and, in addition to Juan Reutter, an academic from the UC Department of Computer Science, the UC Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering and ...

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 public and private schools from 14 municipalities of the Metropolitan Region shared in workshops and workshops on the ...

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 sciences, promoting interdisciplinary participation of those who belong to these areas. During seven days keynotes, workshops and tutorials were held at the San Joaquín Campus of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with the participation of the ...

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 the Association for Computing Machinery. The research examines how "frames" emerge in the web and how ...

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" by the Ministry of Health. "The challenge is great: we want to use the tools of data science to ...

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 the collaborative work with the Superintendence of Social Security (SUSESO), whose main focus was to optimize the entry of claims from a citizen's perspective. The objective of this collaboration is ...

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 1% of the members of the ACM for their contributions to the science of computation and ...

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 scholars with an innovative profile in the fields of theory and methodology in the empirical social sciences. The award includes an invitation to ...

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. What is sought in these prototypes is that they are visionary developments, which are based on solid work ...

[The University of Chile Professor 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 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 the ethics and biases of ...

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 has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and a Master of Science in Computer Science, Industrial Civil Engineer and Computer Civil Engineer from the University of Chile. His research interests ...

A new survey of experts of 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 about the international information context. There is an important increase in the number of experts in the area who predict a greater degradation of the ecosystem ...

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 masculine." This is the vision that drove Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist, pioneer in applying computer technology in the fields of health and medicine, and who, throughout her life actively promoted the participation of women in ...

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 informatics. Digital trust is the main focus of the "Glion Summit of Centers", held in Switzerland, which brought together leaders from 20 research centers from around the world, with the aim of comparing their research and ...

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 Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), which is located at the University of Bordeaux (France) and brings together ...

The hackathon was held at the Google 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 Miranda and Cristobal Vásquez, students of the Department of Computer Science of the University 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 a great mentor for our group. He was the doctoral supervisor of several of our researchers ...

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 IMFD and director of the DCC U. Chile, Carla Toro, Training and Technology Manager of Wikimedia Chile, Patricia Diaz, Executive Director of Wikimedia Chile, and the ...

Magdalena Saldaña, IMFD researcher, takes over as the new Director of Research and Creation of the Communications Faculty of the Universidad Católica de Chile, replacing Professor Sebastián Valenzuela, also IMFD researcher, who resigned from the position to devote himself completely to his teaching and research work in the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) project. The researcher expressed her gratitude for the trust placed in her: "For me, taking on this ...

How to put the most advanced data science techniques at the service of people: this is the objective of the IMFD's 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". SUSESO is the autonomous state agency in charge of overseeing compliance with the Social Security ...

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. ICML is recognized worldwide for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of artificial ...

Three IMFD papers are highlighted in the recent edition of Communications of the ACM: Latin American Regional Special Section. The special, coordinated by Fabio Kon (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sebastian Uchitel (University of Buenos Aires), and IMFD researcher and DCC UCH academic Barbara Poblete, seeks to present the region's most interesting and impactful advances in computer science. "Latin America is ...

Harnessing the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) to manage, analyze and interpret historical archives of the Chilean dictatorship era (1973-1990): this is the objective of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data's Nuestra MemorIA Project, led by Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, academic at DCC and IMC UC; Juan Reutter, academic at DCC and IMC UC and director of IMFD; Camila Diaz, executive director of IMFD; Antonia ...

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, was the General Chair of this version of the conference, which was held in Baltimore, USA, in November 2024, and ...

More than 9000 questions, in 26 languages and 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 IMC and DCC UC academic, together with Paula Silva, IMFD communications coordinator. NeurIPS has become the most prestigious conference in the world on ...

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 scholars with an innovative profile in the fields of theory and methodology in the empirical social sciences. The award includes an invitation to ...

On Thursday, December 12 at 6:00 p.m. at the UC Extension Center, this event will be held with the participation of Marjorie Murray and Sergio Toro ...

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 mixture of joy, nervousness and, also, with great humility, the professor of the Department of Computer Science received the ...

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 the most cited researchers throughout their careers. The list was ...

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 IT and computing. Throughout the meeting, you will be able to participate in talks given by women leaders in the technological field, who will share their experiences and knowledge. You will also be able to learn about the ...