CH1'89 PROCEEDINGS MAY 1989 THE ERGONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY AT I N R I A Andr~ Bisseret PROJECT INRIA Projet de Psychologic Ergonomique Domaine de Voluceau-Rocquencourt 78153 Le Chesnay cedex- FRANCE bisseret@pollux.inria.fr The parent organization INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation) is a French scientific and technological institute from the public sector (under the authority of the Ministry for Research and the Ministry of Industry). The main general assignments of INRIA are: 1) basic research 2) design of experimental systems 3) technology transfer to industry 4) knowledge transfer and international scientific exchanges and cooperation. The budget in 1988 was about $ 55 millions (20 % of which coming from contracts, royalties, sales...). Among the 900 persons who are currently working in the institute, 600 are scientists: - 220 full-time researchers - 220 scholars and trainees - 40 invited foreign researchers (long term stays) - 80 researchers fxom other public laboratories - 40 engineers from industry The institute has a flexible organization based on small units called "projects". Over 50 projects are conducting research in 8 main areas: - programming, symbolic computation and A.I., - new computer architectures, - networks and distributed systems, - data bases~ -
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