May, 2024 - The evaluation of a system that would allow the extraction of valuable information for hydrometeorological events from tweets generated by People in Chile: this is the first result of the collaboration between the Chilean Meteorological Directorate (DMC) and the Innovation Directorate of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). In a meeting with...
Santiago, Chile. In June 2024, the eyes of all global data science specialists will be on our country. During six days of intensive work, the SIGMOD/PODS 2024 conference will be held in Santiago, where more than 800 scientists from universities, research centers and companies in Chile will...
May, 2024 - A proposal that combines the use of large language models with data graphs for clinical data: this is the innovation proposed in the article Augmented non-hallucinating large language models as medical information curators published in NPJ Digital Medicine, by researchers Stephen Gilbert and Jakob Nikolas Kather, from the Center...
The data gap between men and women is the main theme of The Invisible Woman, the book by Caroline Criado Perez, which will be analyzed in the second IMFD - ODEGI Reading Club, which will be held in online format and will have three sessions starting on Thursday, May 16. In...
With more than 30 attendees, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data started the new IMFD Space, a cycle of activities that will combine research seminars, lectures, discussions and others. This cycle aims to promote the interdisciplinary research that characterizes the IMFD and also to generate activities that support and...
Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK) is a new journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on the use of graphs to represent data and knowledge, as well as the techniques, theories, applications and results that emerge in this environment. Created by Aidan Hogan, University of Chile; Ian Horrocks, University of...
China's key investments in Chile: this is what you can review the new interactive map Regional Repository of Chinese Investments in Latin America, a digital tool that compiles detailed and georeferenced information on the Asian country's investments in Chile, Peru and Argentina. The platform currently gathers the information and location of...
One of the challenges that seems very urgent to me is to understand in depth what the real data needs of companies, institutions, organizations and startups in Chile are today. This, in order to then connect those requirements with the capabilities of research centers such as the Millennium Institute Fundamentos de...
On May 4, the University of Chile and the Pontifical Catholic University will host the meeting "Safeguarding press freedom in the midst of journalistic insecurity: Perspectives from the academic world", one of Unesco's activities to commemorate World Press Freedom Day 2024, the year in which the World Press Freedom Day will be...
April 2024: A census of law, a logic of trained enumerators and a digital collection of information are the main features of the 2024 Census that began a month ago. "What is at stake here is to know how much deployment the State has in person and how much is finally left to digital deployment", says...
The Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data offers its researchers, students and teams the Alberto Mendelzon room of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile as an IMFD space. "The collaborative and interdisciplinary work, which brings together leading national researchers and experts in data,...
March, 2024 - With more than 150 participants in eight municipalities, the Disinformation Workshops for Older People carried out by the Millennium Nucleus on Digital Inequalities and Opportunities, Nudos, with the support of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data culminated. Renca, San Antonio, Olivar, Requínoa, Santa Juana and Los Cerros de Talcahuano were the communes in...
With the objective of improving the way in which computer programs are understood and analyzed, the work of IMFD researchers and DCC U. Chile academics Matías Toro and Éric Tanter is one of the projects selected from the ANID-DFG fund of the Chilean National Research and Development Agency, and the...
Generate concrete proposals of solutions for the design, improvement and evaluation of public policies, in order to provide evidence to decision makers and contribute to the national public discussion: this is the main objective of the Public Policy Competition held annually by the UC Center for Public Policy, which is organized by the...
In the framework of a collaborative project between the United Nations Development Programme in Chile (UNDP) and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), the results of the third installment of the Constituent Listening, a study that began in September of last year, were released this week....