Alberto Mendelzon Hall houses the IMFD space in the Computer Science Department of the University of Chile.

March 2023. The Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data makes available to its researchers, students and teams, the Alberto Mendelzon roomof the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile, as IMFD space.

"Collaborative and interdisciplinary work, which brings together leading national researchers and data experts, is what defines our institute," explained Camila Diaz Foxon, executive director of the IMFD, at the inauguration of the room. "The University of Chile is one of our host institutions, and this space seeks for our teams to integrate and share their capabilities, this is what we are interested in promoting, as well as consolidating our presence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile. 

The room is named after Alberto Mendelzonone of the pioneering scientists in the foundations of relational databases and an international leader in database theory. At the inauguration, IMFD researcher and DCC U. Chile academic, Claudio Gutierrez, referred to Mendelzon's close relationship with Chilean scientists, highlighting him as a great mentor and friend, who visited our country and was an important promoter of studies and research in the area that were carried out in Chile. In this story, the IMFD researcher relates the vicissitudes of his stay in the country.

The space, located on the second floor of the west tower of Beauchef 851, is available to researchers, students and the IMFD team.