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| Abbreviation | Inria |
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| Formation | 3 January 1967 (58 years ago) (1967-01-03) |
| Type | Public |
| Purpose | Research |
| Headquarters | Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France |
| Fields | Computer science Applied mathematics |
Official languages | French,English |
President | Bruno Sportisse |
| Budget | €235 million (2013) |
| Staff | 1,772 researchers |
| Website | www |
Formerly called | Institut de recherche en informatique et en automatique |
TheNational Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) (French:Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique) is a French national research institution focusing oncomputer science andapplied mathematics.It was created under the nameFrench Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (IRIA) (French:Institut de recherche en informatique et en automatique) in 1967 atRocquencourt nearParis, part ofPlan Calcul. Its first site was the historical premises ofSHAPE (central command ofNATO military forces), which is still used as Inria's main headquarters. In 1980, IRIA became INRIA.[1] Since 2011, it has been styledInria.
Inria is aPublic Scientific and Technical Research Establishment (EPST) under the double supervision of the FrenchMinistry of National Education, Advanced Instruction and Research and theMinistry of Economy, Finance and Industry.
Inria has nine research centers distributed across France (inBordeaux,Grenoble-Inovallée,Lille,Lyon,Nancy,Paris-Rocquencourt,Rennes,Saclay, andSophia Antipolis) and one center abroad inSantiago de Chile, Chile. It also contributes to academic research teams outside of those centers.
Inria Rennes is part of the jointInstitut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires (IRISA) with several other entities.
Before December 2007, the three centers of Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay formed a single research center called INRIA Futurs.
In October 2010, Inria, withPierre and Marie Curie University (nowSorbonne University) andParis Diderot University startedIRILL, a center for innovation and research initiative for free software.
Inria employs 3800 people. Among them are 1300 researchers, 1000 Ph.D. students and 500 postdoctorates.
Inria does boththeoretical and applied research in computer science. In the process, it has produced many widely used programs, such as:
Inria furthermore leads French AI Research, ranking 12th worldwide in 2019, based on accepted publications at theConference on Neural Information Processing Systems.[8]
During the summer of 1988, the INRIA connected its Sophia-Antipolis unit to theNSFNet viaPrinceton using a satellite link leased to France Telecom and MCI. The link became operational on 8 August 1988, and allowed INRIA researchers to access the US network and allowedNASA researchers access to an astronomical database based inStrasbourg. This was the first international connection to NSFNET and the first time that French networks were connected directly to a network usingTCP/IP. TheInternet in France was limited to research and education for some years to come.[9][10][11]
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