More women among the competitors and two venues - Santiago and Concepción - where the Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI) in its 2019 version was held simultaneously. These were the novelties of the national final that took place on Saturday, January 11 at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Campus San Joaquín,...
Jorge Pérez, researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and Computer Science academic at the University of Chile, has been working since 2019 on BETO: a neural network model that allows the computational processing of natural language. Together with José Cañete (24) and Gabriel Chaperón (25) -both Computer Engineering students at...
"We are interested in thinking about how to systematize citizen participation and see the different initiatives that exist in this direction," said Marcelo Arenas, director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academic of the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of the Catholic University, who was one of those in charge of opening the seminar "Systematizing...
NEW DATA: NEWS WITH BACKGROUND In the press: CIPER Chile / 18/O: the bonfire of inequalities Juan Pablo Luna: "The Metro has shortened the physical and temporal distances between unequal people. It has possibly contributed to politicize (making them more visible in social terms) the enormous inequalities that today continue to mark the lives of those who live...
Jorge Pérez and Bárbara Poblete, researchers at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academics from the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at the University of Chile, participated last week in the NeurIPS 2019 conference in Vancouver, Canada. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of...
The Emerging Challenges in Databases and AI Research (DBAI) workshop was held in Santa Cruz, VI Region, from November 12 to 15, 2019. This meeting, which brought together 65 researchers in the area of databases and artificial intelligence from different parts of the world, was organized by the Emblematic Project 3...
Its name is Khipu and it is the most important event in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has been held in Latin America, explains Jorge Pérez, researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academic of the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of the University of Chile. Perez was one of the guests invited to the meeting...
This is a very competitive contest in the area of technology: 25 prizes were awarded out of a total of 670 applications. And the only two from Chile went to Bárbara Poblete and Gonzalo Navarro, both academics from the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of the University of Chile, and researchers from the Institute of Computer Science of the University of...
This is the most important conference on the subject of the semantic web, the so-called ISWC, International Semantic Web Conference. "It has to do with transforming the web into a database. Technology, protocols and languages have been developed for this purpose," explains Juan Reutter, a researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD),...
In early October, researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) participated in the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE'19), in Segovia, Spain. Gonzalo Navarro, who is also a member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile, attended as an invited speaker. His presentation was entitled "Repetitiveness and...
Margarita Bugueño, Master's student in Computer Engineering Sciences at the Universidad Federico Santa María, and young researcher at IMFD, recently won the SIMAH -SocIaL Media and Harrasment- competition, which took place at the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), in Würzburg, Germany. What did the competition consist of? Solving an artificial intelligence challenge...
Guillermo Pattillo, director of the National Statistics Institute (INE), was the protagonist of a new version of the Open Seminars held by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) on August 30. At the end of his presentation, Pattillo spoke about data science and how it would help the work that the Institute is...
Minister Andrés Couve today confirmed the 10 experts who will support the elaboration of the National Artificial Intelligence Policy to be presented by the government in April next year. The team of specialists brings together academics, representatives from industry, the public sector and civil society with experience in technology, ethical considerations, public policy, data use and economic development as a result of this new technology.
"It is of the utmost importance to have signed this agreement, particularly because of the multidisciplinary component of our institute, where political science plays a fundamental role. With the data, the experience and the people working at Servel, we expect to have a very strong collaboration," said Marcelo Arenas, director of the Millennium Institute Fundamentos de los...
UNDERGRADUATE and master's students, doctoral students, postdoctoral students, researchers and government and academic authorities. All of them -more than 60 People in total-, were part of the audience that gathered on Wednesday, July 31, at the San Joaquin Campus of the Catholic University, during the visit of the Millennium Science Initiative -an entity dependent on the Ministry of Science and Technology- to the...