The project started in 1996 as the pooling of the previous efforts of several project participants:PlaGeo and SpaGeo from Utrecht University, LEDA of the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics and C++GAL of INRIA Sophia Antipolis.
Ipernity was developed in Sophia Antipolis and required two years of programming and testing, and was built chiefly with free and open source software technology.
X Pixmap (XPM) is an image file format used by the X Window System, created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors.
Sophia Loren | Hagia Sophia | Sophia University | Sophia Antipolis | Sophia Parnok | Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach | Sophia Kiely | Sophia Perennis | Sophia Frangou | Sophia Charlotte of Hanover | Princess Sophia | Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach | Sophia the Martyr | Sophia Smith Collection | Sophia Petrillo | Sophia of Nassau | Sophia of Hanover | Sophia Montecarlo | Sophia Magdalena of Denmark | Sophia Latjuba | Sophia Jagiellon | Sophia Desta | Sophia College, Mumbai | Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom | Princess Sophia of Gloucester | Miss Sophia's Diary | SS Princess Sophia | Sophia of Lithuania | Sophia Mundi Steiner School | Sophia Morrison |
INRIA has 8 research centers (in Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Nancy, Paris-Rocquencourt, Rennes, Saclay, and Sophia Antipolis) and also contributes to academic research teams outside of those centers.
Télécom ParisTech in Paris and Sophia Antipolis (ex École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, Télécom Paris, or ENST)
While the village has been preserved in its original condition, nearby is the high tech centre of Sophia Antipolis, constructed in the 1970s along the same lines as La Défense near Paris.
Branches of the corporation are located in cities around the country, including Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Rennes, and Sophia-Antipolis.