For the 2019 version of this free initiative, journalists and communicators must submit a research question or topic that requires obtaining and analyzing data to be developed.
Alvaro Soto and Marcelo Mendoza, who lead the Artificial Intelligence with Explanation project, were part of this meeting led by the Future Challenges Commission of the Chilean Senate, which seeks to generate a policy proposal on artificial intelligence for Chile.
David Bravo, an economist at Pontificia Universidad Católica and a master's degree in Economics from Harvard University, stated that Chile urgently needs to consider and review the use of data as a cross-cutting source for public policies in the country.
The National Statistics Institute (INE) and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data signed a cooperation agreement that will allow them to pool resources, capabilities and work to develop matters of joint interest in scientific and technological research related to databases, semantic web, algorithms, data mining, artificial intelligence, big data and behavior...
"Look at those People over there. What do they have in common? What they have in common is that these People do not exist, they are not real. A computer, pixel by pixel, drew them. Part of what I want to tell you today is how a computer does this. I'm going to show you that it's not so...
"In our foundation, we are convinced that the way in which we can contribute to the discussion of the country's priorities and the generation of more and better public policies is through evidence. Even more so if it comes from an analysis of the highest quality, based on data and...
"Exposing the president: the political angle of a natural disaster in Chile", is the name of the paper by Magdalena Saldaña -academic at the Faculty of Communications of the Catholic University and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, which was chosen as the winner of the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) 2019, a meeting that will be held in...
Bárbara Poblete, researcher of our institute and academic of the Department of Computer Science (DCC), Universidad de Chile, was one of the organizers of LA-WEB 2019: 10th Latin-American Web Congress, an event that was part of The Web Conference (WWW) in San Francisco, USA. The Web Conference is the most important...
"On the Turing Completeness of Modern Neural Network Architectures" is the title of the research presented by Jorge Pérez, an academic from the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at the University of Chile and IMFD researcher, at the International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR 2019), which took place in New York City....
There are certain conferences in the area of computing that have more visibility and renown worldwide and, therefore, attract more papers from researchers from different latitudes. In the area of database theory, one of the most relevant is the International Conference on Database Theory...
The Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, represented by its researcher Cristián Pérez-Muñoz, academic of the Institute of Political Science of the Pontificia Universidad Católica, was invited to participate in a first debate on the possibility of lowering the age of citizenship to 16 years old and of municipal voting to 14 years old. It is about...
Data (lots of data), pizza and beer were the essential ingredients of the first Data, Beer & Pizza, a meeting that seeks - in a relaxed atmosphere of camaraderie - to disseminate the scope of data science in its most diverse fields of application. The meeting, which was attended by more than 100 People, was organized by the Institute...
Everything can start with a simple "Like" on a Facebook comment, so that this first approval, given freely and autonomously by a user to a message that matches his or her interests, becomes part of a chain of events that ends with that person marking a line in one of...
This Friday, April 12, the first official visit of the year will be carried out by directors and researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data to the Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), a partner institution of our center. Participating as researchers in the IMFD are the Vice Rector of Research and Development UdeC, Andrea Rodriguez; the...
In an event that brought together multiple actors of the logistics sector, the Undersecretary of Transportation, José Luis Domínguez, launched the new IDEA project (Integration of Data and Statistics of Foreign Trade), which will use, through the use of advanced mathematical techniques, multiple data sources to improve the quality of foreign trade statistics.....