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Cinthia Sanchez, a PhD student from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, presented the paper "Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Crisis Classification for Low-Resource Scenarios" at The Seventeenth International Conference on Web and Social Media, the international conference on web and social media...

June 2023 - With the aim of providing a broad and critical view on the development and possibilities of language models, specifically in relation to the latest technological advances in the field of artificial intelligence and the great impact that ChatGPT has generated, during the month of May, the research group...

May 2023 - The 15th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW), was held in late May at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile and was attended by about 60 People, including speakers, academics and students ( UNDERGRADUATE and graduate), all interested in...

The impact of data on power when viewed through feminism and intersectionality: this was the main theme of the first session of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data and Observatory of Data and Gender Statistics (ODEGI) Book Club. The meeting, which was well attended,...

A new language and type system called Jazz was presented by researchers from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile (DCC U. Chile) and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data in "Contextual Linear Types for Differential Privacy", a work developed by Matías Toro, Federico Olmedo and Éric Tanter, and the student...

May 2023: "Find a witness or shatter: the landscape of computable PAC learning" is the title of the work of IMFD researchers and international postdoctoral fellows of the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering of the Catholic University of Chile (IMC UC), Valentino Delle Rose, Alexander Kozachinskiy and Tomasz Steifer, together with the academic of the same unit,...

May, 2023 - Society is currently facing political and cultural scenarios that are changing at a dizzying pace, making the reading of reality oscillate between hope and uncertainty. In our country, the political, electoral and social processes seem to give no respite since 18-O, to which is added the proliferation of...

May 2023 - The study of programming languages is a fundamental work for data science today. This is why this Third Meeting of Fundamentals of Programming Languages, which was held at the Ministry of Science and Technology of Córdoba, Argentina, has special relevance for our region. The large delegation that...

Do you like to take pictures, with your camera or your cell phone? Are there moments in your daily life that catch your attention and you would like to capture in images? The Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data has just launched a photo contest for its entire internal community, which seeks to collect the views of students, researchers and...

May, 2023 - After five years of continuous work in academia and research at the Faculty of Communications of the Catholic University of Chile, IMFD researcher Magdalena Saldaña is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at this institution. This category is an important recognition in the academic career of professors....

May, 2023 - The experimental application Constituteando (https://constituteando.imfd.cl/), based on their own work to improve the capabilities of GPT, has just been launched by researchers at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The application allows queries on general information, ideas or proposals from the candidates for constitutional councilors in the May 2023 elections.

María José Apolo, former IMFD student and graduate of Computer Engineering at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, works in the field of creative artificial intelligence, investigating how the transfer of style from music to images is carried out by means of deep learning. In the research "Bimodal style...

May, 2023 - A new interdisciplinary study on disinformation on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram that circulated in Chile in the context of the social outbreak and pandemic was conducted by Chilean researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). "The results of the study indicate that the phenomenon of disinformation in Chile presents characteristics of maximum...

May, 2023 - With the aim of joining forces to link research and development efforts, the Chilean Meteorological Directorate and the Innovation Directorate of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data signed a collaboration agreement that will allow linking data science knowledge with the invaluable climatological and atmospheric information...

April, 2023 - How to make the knowledge generated in universities and study centers available for the formation of law in the country? This is the question behind the Vincula Meeting Platform, a technological product developed by the IMFD Innovation team, as part of the collaboration between the Millennium Institute Fundamentals of Law and...