Dead Democracy is an essay by political scientist Juan Pablo Luna on Latin America and Chile that argues that the problems facing the region's democracies today do not originate in institutional politics, but in much deeper structural factors that transcend leaders and the rules of the game.
Felipe Bravo Márquez, IMFD researcher and academic of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile, will take over as director of the Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative (IDIA) of the FCFM. In this context, he talks to the communications teams of the DCC and IDIA in the following interview: With a...
Pablo Barceló, Marcelo Arenas and Domingo Mery, academics DCC-IMC UC; together with Aidan Hogan, Gonzalo Navarro, Claudio Gutiérrez and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, academics DCC UCH, and Sebastián Valenzuela, academic of the Faculty of Communications UC and researcher of NUDOS, were recognized in the latest edition of the ranking "World's Top 2% Scientists", which also highlights...
October 2024 - We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for ChileWiC 2024, the XII Meeting of Women in Computing. This event is a unique opportunity to share, learn and connect with women and young people in the world of computing and informatics. Throughout the meeting, you will be able to participate in talks given by women from...
As a way to enhance this area, USS incorporated Leopoldo Bertossi, senior researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, who arrived in July 2024 after his experience as Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Carleton University. Bertossi, who holds a PhD in Mathematics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,...
The Communal Digitalization Index (IDC), developed by the Millennium Nucleus on Digital Inequalities and Opportunities (NUDOS), with the participation of IMFD researchers Sebastián Valenzuela, academic at the UC School of Communications, and Sergio Toro, director of the School of Government at the Universidad Mayor, measured connectivity in households, its use and the...
A new survey of experts from the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), a scientific consortium of which the academic of the UC School of Communications and IMFD researcher, Sebastián Valenzuela, is scientific director, reveals a worrying diagnosis of the international information context. There is a...
October, 2024.- "There is a need to broaden women's access to technology and challenge the patriarchal history of science and technology, which has viewed these disciplines as inherently male." This is the vision that drove Thelma Estrin, an American computer scientist and pioneer in applying information technology to the fields of health and...
September, 2024 - Generating environments, protocols and tools that give reliability to the interaction in digital environments: this is one of the biggest challenges currently facing the world of computing and information technology. Digital trust is the main focus of the "Glion Summit of Centers", held in Switzerland, which brought together leaders from all over the...
The 2024 edition of Highlights will be held from September 16-20 at the University of Bordeaux (France). Pablo Barceló's talk will cover three case studies that highlight the key role of logic in improving the understanding of modern machine learning architectures. The Laboratoire Bordelais de...
The hackathon was held at the Google offices in Chile with the presence of the sponsors: Le Wagon, Kaggle and Google Cloud, in order to bring the learning and application of cloud technologies and data science to a new level in our region. The first place winners of the hackathon were: Luis...
Study led by Pablo Beytía analyzed 9 thousand biographies of Chileans in Wikipedia, revealing content gaps. Only 19.2% are women and 0.2% transgender. A forum was held to present the work, with the participation of Aidan Hogan, alternate director of the IMFD and director of the DCC U. Chile, Carla Toro, Head of...
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, academic of the University of Chile and senior researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, was awarded the National Prize for Applied and Technological Sciences by the Ministry of Education. For the director of the IMFD, Juan Reutter, DCC UC academic, Ricardo "throughout his career has been an important...
Magdalena Saldaña, IMFD researcher, takes over as the new Director of Research and Creation of the Faculty of Communications at the Catholic University of Chile, replacing Professor Sebastián Valenzuela, also IMFD researcher, who resigned to devote himself completely to his teaching and research work in the International Panel on the Information Environment project, which is being carried out by...
IMFD and Cenia researcher, Felipe Bravo, is promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Chile. The academic of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and a Master's degree in Computer Science, mention in Computer Science, Civil Engineer...