The
French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation 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. Since 2011, it has been styled
inria.