Last month, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, a researcher expert in data science and artificial intelligence (AI), received a call he was not expecting: he was informed that he had been chosen, along with other experts, to join the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council of the Spanish state. This is an advisory body whose role is to advise and deliver...
Marcelo Arenas and Cristián Riveros, researchers at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academics at the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad Católica, received the ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, for the article "Efficient Logspace Classes for Enumeration, Counting, and Uniform Generation", which they co-wrote with authors Luis Alberto...
The research How Party Activism Survives analyzes how Uruguay's Frente Amplio survives in contrast to similar parties in other countries. It received the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award and its authors are Verónica Pérez, from the University of the Republic of Uruguay, Rafael Piñeiro, from the Catholic University of Uruguay, and Fernando Rosenblatt, academic at the Diego Portales University and researcher at the IMFD.
It is the most important conference in the area of deep learning, or deep neural networks, "which is the most effective artificial intelligence (AI) technique and the one that is having the best results today," says Jorge Perez, researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academic of the Department of Computer Science (DCC)....
The platform integrates in a relational database the information available in the repositories of Johns Hopkins University in the USA, the Ministry of Science in our country, the Chilean Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the worldwide database of PCRs compiled by OWID.
The test can detect the total loss of smell (anosmia) associated with the disease. The results are now recorded on a platform developed by the IMFD, which immediately shows the anomalies.
The system is capable of processing sensitive COVID-19 patient information, anonymizing the data automatically and generating different types of reports that the health authority can deliver to those who need to analyze this pandemic.
Often, the different disciplines that coexist in the field of computer science - such as database theory and machine learning, to name a few - do not intersect. This is despite the great value of interdisciplinarity in the world of data science. This dilemma is known to...
Researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, together with collaborators, published today April 30 an article in Medium, in which they expose the seriousness that the lack of access to epidemiological information represents for Chile, the difficulties that other countries have faced in this matter, together with examples of open data experiences.
Andrea Rodríguez, Vice-Rector of Research and Development at the Universidad de Concepción (UdeC) and associate researcher at the IMFD, coordinates three projects: the identification of potential risk areas, the socio-spatial diagnosis of territories with conditions of vulnerability to the virus, and epidemiological models based on contact with infected People .
Having information based on rigorous scientific evidence that contributes to better decision making has proven to be a critical element in combating the spread of the coronavirus globally and also in Chile. For this reason, convened by the Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, Andrés Couve, the Millennium Institute Fundamentos...
Between March 2 and 6, a delegation of 11 People, including representatives of academic centers, NGOs and government officials, visited New Zealand to learn about the country's experience in the creation of a longitudinal, unnamed administrative database available for applied research...
NEW DATA: NEWS WITH BACKGROUND In the press: Fake news (Emol TV) Sebastián Valenzuela: "Fake news and disinformation can sometimes be 'profitable', that is, if I manage to generate a very visceral reaction in someone, usually against something and in favor of something, they are a political tool. If they are used in this way, it makes people...
He has authored more than 60 papers and has served on the program committees of the most important conferences on databases and logic in computer science, such as ACM PODS, SIGMOD, ICDT, LICS and STACS. He was also PC chair of the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) in 2019. His...
Denis Parra, a Computer Science academic at the Catholic University and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), has been working for years in a less explored area of artificial intelligence (AI): its application in art and creative processes in general. -What impact is the use of AI having on the...