Ricardo Baeza Yates, professor at the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of the University of Chile and senior researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), received a new award for his professional career. The academic, who was distinguished in Catalonia with the Salvà i Campillo Award for...
Taking advantage of the obvious synergy between the research of both institutions, on March 15, researchers from the Millennium Institute for Astrophysics (MAS) and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) met for the first time to discuss possible collaborations to expand data-driven science. In the case...
Denis Parra, professor of the Department of Computer Science at the Catholic University (DCC) and researcher at our institute, participated last March in the ACM IUI 2019 Conference in Los Angeles, United States. It was the 24th version of this annual meeting, called "intelligent user interfaces", a conference whose themes...
"Is technology forcing us to live increasingly alone?". That was the question that served as prologue to the panel "Alone and hyperconnected, the paradox of our times", one of the topics that formed the Future Congress 2019, on Friday, January 18. And on that stage was Bárbara Poblete, associate researcher at the...
Chile already has representatives for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). After an intense week of competition, on Wednesday, January 16, the names of the four students - two of them high school students - who will represent Chile at the IOI 2019, to be held from August 4 to 11, 2019, were announced.
The digitization of all the data produced by human beings through technology (from the first recording systems to the present day) has taken less than 30 years: if in the mid-1980s less than 1% of the information was in digital format, today this figure reaches 99%. Its magnitude is...
On January 4, representatives of the most diverse disciplines were invited to a lunch at the Palacio de La Moneda with President Sebastián Piñera, the Minister of Science, Andrés Couve, and Undersecretary Carolina Torrealba. The purpose of the meeting, which brought together nine Chilean scientists, was to generate a dialogue on how to strengthen the Chilean...
With the word "cat" in different languages and images of felines, Jorge Perez, Computer Science academic at the University of Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, started his presentation at the VI International Conference on Scientific Culture at the Universidad Andrés Bello, a meeting open to the public and open to all...
A panel of experts to address the digital skills required in the Open Science era was formed in 2018 by the OECD Global Science Forum. Marcelo Arenas, director of the IMFD and Professor at the OECD's Global Science Forum, was invited to be part of this Expert Group (EG)....
From innovations that simulate human movements to robots that perform retail audits were some of the technologies presented by international and national computer scientists at the 14th version of the COPEC UC Foundation International Seminar, which this year was dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and attracted 1,250 attendees on 22 December.
"Programming gives me a feeling of great freedom, because it requires understanding things that are asked of you, expressing them or transferring them to a code and using it to solve a problem. The fun part is that through various paths you can reach the same correct result", says Tomás Castillo (15 years old), from the Kent School, one of the participants of...
As part of the Jornadas Chilenas de Ciencia de la Computación 2018, to be held from November 5 to 9 in Santiago, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data will dedicate a full day to address, in a close way, all the lines of research being developed in a field as complex as emerging, such as...
One of the great scientific and technological challenges in computer science today is to maintain the security, correctness, and stability of the large digital information systems on which society increasingly depends, ranging from services to social networks, among many others. These systems generate and process gigantic volumes of data and...
The Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data lecture series, which brings together researchers from the Social Sciences and the Exact Sciences to study the large amounts of data produced by the different institutions, companies and organizations of contemporary society. In this context, the interdisciplinary lecture series begins to present research whose main objective is to...
"Equivalences for Free: Univalent Parametricity for Effective Transport" is the title of the paper by Éric Tanter, an academic from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile and research associate at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, which - carried out jointly with researchers Nicolas Tabareau and Matthieu Sozeau, from the French National Institute for...