Groupe des Ecoles des Mines - LORIA, the Lorraine Laboratory for Research and Applications in Computer Science

This is a joint laboratory with the INPL, the University of Nancy UHP and Nancy 2, to the CNRS and INRIA.

LORIA has centered its scientific policy around the topic of software intelligence . Software intelligence for the sciences and technologies of information and communication is an essential component of technological, economic and cultural development.

Software programs are everywhere in our society. The mastery of their design, production, and use is therefore an essential challenge for sustainable development.

In this context, LORIA has developed activities in five research areas :
 calculations, networks and high performance graphics
 Tele operations and intelligent assistants
 languages engineering, engineering of scientific, technical and cultural  data and information
 quality and reliability of software and information systems.
 bio-informatics and applications to geonomics.

Research carried out at LORIA is both fundamental and applied, which implies numerous industrial partnerships in a large economic sector. LORIA is also involved in long-standing relations with numerous French and foreign laboratories, in Europe and in the USA, Japan, China, North Africa etc...