is honored with
J. W. Graham Medal
of Waterloo gives this award since 1995 to the most outstangin
of their alumni in Computing and Innovation. In 2007 the
Medal was granted to Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, our subdirector.
Paper Award for CWR researchers at ESWC-07
European Semantic Web Conerence 2007, chose as best paper
the work of Sergio Muñoz, Jorge Pérez y Claudio
Gutiérrez called Minimal Deductive Systems
main goal of the Center for Web Research (CWR) is to perform
basic research on problems related to the Web, focusing on five
we plan to research on combinatorial pattern matching on images,
audio and text; similarity searching of atomic and structured objects;
handling semistructured information; mathematical simulation of
the process that occur in the Web; and distributed agents and platforms
and search of non traditional information (multimedia, structured,
modeling of the Web
extraction from the web
systems and parallelism.
CWR becomes a unique opportunity to join in a common project
the efforts of geographically distributed top level researchers.
May 2009: News about the development of a Search Engine for the Government of Chile (in Spanish)
CWR releases new version of its Study of the Chilean Web
Características de la Web Chilena, 2006
During August 2006, CWR developed a massive recollection of Chilean Webpages using the WIRE system, developed by our researchers. The analysis of these results are presented in the new report.
June 1st 2007
El Mercurio newspaper highlights the Study in its Santiago