French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation

Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
Formation 3 January 1967 (1967-01-03)
Type Public
Purpose Research
Headquarters Rocquencourt, France
Fields Computer science
Applied mathematics
Official languages
French, English
President
Antoine Petit
Budget
235 million (2013)
Staff
1,772 researchers
Website inria.fr

The French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (French: Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name Institut de recherche en informatique et en automatique (IRIA) in 1967 at Rocquencourt near Paris, part of Plan Calcul. Its first site was the historical premises of SHAPE (central command of NATO military forces). In 1979 IRIA became INRIA.[1] Since 2011, it has been styled inria.

Inria is a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment (EPST) under the double supervision of the French Ministry of National Education, Advanced Instruction and Research and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry.

Administrative status

Inria has 8 research centers (in Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Nancy, Paris-Rocquencourt, Rennes, Saclay, and Sophia Antipolis) and also contributes to academic research teams outside of those centers.

Before December 2007, the three centers of Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay formed a single research center called INRIA Futurs.

In October 2010, INRIA, with Pierre and Marie Curie University and Paris Diderot University started IRILL, 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.

Research

Inria does both theoretical and applied research in computer science. In the process, it has produced many widely used programs, such as

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