May 2021 - In recognition of the development of science, technology and innovation, in the category Covid-19 Technology, Test KOR was awarded by the UC Directorate of Transfer and Development in a virtual ceremony led by the rector of the Catholic University, Ignacio Sanchez and the vice rector of Research, Pedro Bouchon. The event, held this Thursday...
May, 2021 - The paper "When is Approximate Counting for Conjunctive Queries Tractable?", by Marcelo Arenas, Catholic University academic and IMFD director; Luis Alberto Croquevielle, Catholic University and IMFD graduate student; Rajesh Jayaram, Carnegie Mellon University doctoral student; and Cristian Riveros, Catholic University academic and IMFD researcher was accepted in the 53rd ACM...
The study "Information credibility on Twitter" was awarded at the most important international scientific conference on Web research for the impact of its work ten years after its original publication, with a pioneering research and considered a fundamental piece in the study of the problem of "fake news". In February 2010,...
"The Marriage of Univalence and Parametricity," is the title of a paper by Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data researcher and Department of Computer Science (DCC) professor Éric Tanter, along with Inria researchers Nicolas Tabareau and Matthieu Sozeau, which was published in the Journal of the ACM (JACM), which is...
January 2021 - In a year marked by the health emergency, the management and use of data became especially relevant for all societies. For this reason, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, proposed to maintain one of its spaces open to the general community, which promotes the debate on the importance...
After an extremely challenging year, the IX Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI), the main computer programming competition in the country, took place on Saturday, January 30, from which 12 national champions emerged: seven bronze medals, four silver medals and one gold medal. In this event, which...
Santiago, January 2021 - Two regular Fondecyt projects were awarded to researchers of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, in which the interdisciplinary work of the teams and the use of data for the study of relevant and contingent issues for today's Chilean society stand out. Magdalena Saldaña, researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational...
On Monday, January 25 and Tuesday, January 26, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., this meeting, which has been held for more than a decade, will be held under the academic direction of researcher Ricardo Baeza-Yates.
For Leopoldo Bertossi, full professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences of the Adolfo Ibáñez University, we are living fast and fruitful times in informatics and computer science. "It is a very interesting time to work in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science: there is a lot to do and the impact...
The new Observatorio Logístico web platform provides open and updated access to sector information.
The eighth edition of Google Research's Latin America Research Awards selected 22 frontier research projects from various Latin American countries for funding. In the case of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, the work recognized is the one carried out by Dustin Cobas,...
The initiative will make it possible to search for information in the minutes of the National Congress from the beginning of the 19th century to date. Given that the task requires many hours of manual labor, the public has been invited to participate and contribute through the Letelier platform (https://letelier.imfd.cl/).
Andrea Rodríguez Tastets, Vice Rector for Research and Development of the Universidad de Concepción and Associate Researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, has been elected as the new President of the CRUCH Research Committee. The vice rector said that, in this new position, she will promote the excellent work carried out by the previous board,...
November 2020.- Based on the evaluations carried out by UNDERGRADUATE students, the University of Chile gave awards to its outstanding academics on the 178th anniversary of the institution. With a strong emphasis on the conditions caused by the health situation, they highlighted the work of the academics who made an effort to overcome...
Communications of the ACM is one of the most relevant international scientific publications in the area of computing. It brings together advances and emerging topics in computing, new trends in IT and applied research, discoveries and innovations, with an emphasis on the cutting-edge science that paves the way...