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.
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.[11][12][13]
^Abbate 1999, p. 3 "The manager of the ARPANET project, Lawrence Roberts, assembled a large team of computer scientists ... and he drew on the ideas of network experimenters in the United States and the United Kingdom. Cerf and Kahn also enlisted the help of computer scientists from England, France and the United States"
Beltran, Alain; Griset, Pascal (2007).Histoire d'un pionnier de l'informatique: 40 ans de recherche à l'Inria [Story of a computer pioneer: 40 years of research at INRIA] (in French). EDP Sciences.ISBN978-2-86883-806-3.
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