The "HPC-SME Initiative" is the name of the programme jointly launched by GENCI, INRIA and OSEO in partnership with four global competitiveness clusters to facilitate and encourage access by SMEs to high-performance computing (HPC)...

The SIGGRAPH international conference gets under way today in Los Angeles. The event draws every researcher, designer and manufacturer working in images and an attendance of 25,000 is expected...

For more than 10 years, the French company Binocle has been developing innovative 3D tools. These tools allow users to shoot films and carry out post-production in 3D...

Sylvain Lefebvre, an INRIA researcher, has won the Eurographics Award in the category "Young Researcher". This award comes in recognition of his research work on texture synthesis...

A large group of French innovation players creates the Mobile Services Initiative, which aims to bring together all national players in this field.

Was France’s recent defeat at the 2010 World Cup a true reflection of their standing? Accurately assessing the real level of sportspeople or game players to predict the result of a confrontation, match or competition is no easy task...

Nancy, July 1 2010 – Located at the heart of INRIA’s Nancy-Grand Est centre, the high security computing laboratory (LHS) is aimed at hosting decisive research work for making networks, Internet exchanges and associated telecommunications equipment safe.

Interview with José M. Fernandez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal. He leads a unit similar to the LHS.

One year ago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and INRIA formed the Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing. In this interview, Mark Snir, co-Director of the INRIA-Illinois Joint Laboratory, talks about this collaboration.

Olivier Savoie has worked as a young specialist engineer from 2003 to 2005 at Sophia Antipolis in the ACACIA project-team on the development of software CORESE..

INRIA has just created the first joint project team with a European university - the University of Bologna in Italy. Known by the name of FOCUS (Foundations of Component-based Ubiquitous Systems), this team has been placed under the responsibility of David Sangiorgi.

Interview with Davide Sangiorgi, head of the project-team FOCUS, the first joint team with a European university.

Le rapport annuel 2009 de l'INRIA est arrivé. Comme chaque année, il développe dix histoires de recherche choisies dans les cinq grands domaines de recherche de l'Institut.

Between 2006 and 2008, Samuel Dufour-Kowalski worked as a Young Graduate Engineer within the Virtual Plants research team led by Christophe Godin from INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée. He spent two years working on the development of the OpenAlea software. .

On 17 December 2009, an alliance was established fordigital sciences and technologies. Michel Cosnard, chairman of the alliance’s coordination committee for two years, enlightens us about his role and work...

Michel Cosnard, Chairman and CEO of INRIA since May 2006, has been reappointed for a new four-year term. The President of the French Republic appointed Michel Cosnard Chairman of INRIA’s Board of Directors by a decree signed on 7th May 2010 and published in the official gazette on 11th May 2010.

From 13 to 21 May, 2010, and in close collaboration with the Lyon-based INSA and the ARDI or Agency for Development and Innovation in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, INRIA is setting up a base in Shanghai on the banks of the Huangpu River.

Since April 2010, the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie science museum at Parc de la Villette in Paris has played host to the Tech’ Galerie: a 400m² exhibition and debating venue dedicated to tomorrow's technologies.

Researchers at the Institute would like to pay an emotive tribute to Robin Milner, who passed away on 20 March 2010 at the age of 76...

INRIA is looking for its new Director of International Relations . Applications should be sent no later than 15 May 2010. The position is to be filled on September 1st, 2010.

On 22 March, the Grenoble research centre hosted a broadly interdisciplinary seminar on the theme of sustainable development...

INRIA is looking for its new Director of International Relations . Applications should be sent no later than 15 May 2010. The position is to be filled on September 1st, 2010.

Georges Nissen, an iconic figure at INRIA who spent his entire career working for the Institute, passed away on Tuesday 9 March 2010.

Four years after the last effort, which enabled a 663-bit RSA key to be cracked, INRIA and its partners are demonstrating the vulnerability of 768-bit RSA keys. A feat which makes this key, used in bank cards until not so long ago, irrevocably obsolete.

Michel Cosnard, Chairman of INRIA, has been assigned by the Allistene members, to be the new Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Alliance for a two-year period...

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, secretary of state for the digital economy, has asked Michel Cosnard to participate on the panel of experts on the “Neutrality of the Net”...

On 1 March, Antoine Petit, the current director of the INRIA Paris – Rocquencourt research centre, was appointed director for the INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France centre. He will carry out both roles until his mandate expires in July 2010.

Marie-France Sagot, Francis Bach and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer have been awarded the prestigious ERC grant to fund their pioneering projects. We get to know these leading scientific figures a little better...

INRIA takes its technology transfer and innovation policy to another level by opening its first demonstration and exchange platform for its economic partners at the EuraTechnologies site.

From 26 to 28 January, INRIA participates in the Euro-Mediterranean Innovation Marketplace. The event, organised within the context of the Franco-Egyptian year of science and technology, will take place in Cairo. On this occasion, INRIA will present its activities in the areas of research, knowledge transfer and innovation.

Convinced of the importance of developing more environmentally friendly technologies, INRIA is a founding member of the Green Touch initiative, launched on Monday 11 January by Alcatel-Lucent and its Bell Labs research units....

Happy New Year from INRIA. We are on the threshold of what promises to be a very exciting decade for digital sciences. Now, more than ever, we are set to share with you all the advances that are brought to us by the projects that drive INRIA.