The IMDEA Software Institute participated in the ‘XI Madrid is Science Fair’ together with the other IMDEA Institutes from March 2nd to 5th, at the IFEMA Exhibition Center. The event was organized by the Fundación para el Conocimiento Madrimasd and promoted by the Madrid Regional Government.

On Friday, March 4, the Regional Minister of Education, Universities and Science, and Presidency, Enrique Ossorio, visited the IMDEAs stands together with the Deputy Regional Minister of Universities, Science and Innovation, Fidel Rodríguez-Batalla; the Deputy Regional Minister of Educational Policy of the Regional Ministry of Education, Rocío Albert; and the General Director of Research and Technological Innovation, Ana Isabel Cremades. The delegation was received by the directors and general managers of the seven IMDEA institutes. Altogether they visited each stand to learn about the activities represented there from the researchers.

More than 20,000 people saw what educational centers, universities, companies, research centers and representatives of the Community of Madrid offered in #MadridEsCiencia.

Four intense days in which the IMDEA Institutes were able to show the young public what they are working on. Specifically, IMDEA Software presented four activities as similes of the work being done at the institute given that their work is intangible. They used the hanoi towers to show how an algorithm works and its relation to the functionality of databases; encryption disks to introduce visitors to cryptography; parallel sums to explain the divide and conquer and consensus algorithm; and finally, we explained how Instagram filters work with logic games and matrices.