from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
INRIA
IRISA
<body> (INRIA) A French research institute for computer
science, {control theory}, and applied mathematics. INRIA has
research units in Rocquencourt (near Paris), Sophia-Antipolis
(near Nice), Grenoble, Nancy (also known as LORIA) and Rennes
(known as IRISA), the last two in partnership with {CNRS} and
local universities.
INRIA works on various projects, including the development of
{free software} such as {SciLab}, {Objective Caml}, {Bigloo},
and projects such as {GNU MP}.
(2003-07-13)