Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
     
         (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)