The Virtual Institute of Information is housed by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), directed by Eli Noam, Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School and former Public Service Commissioner for New York State with Kenneth Carter, Associate Director - CITI.

Contributions to the contents of this site have been made by many individuals. The Institute would like to recognize particularly Eric Stonier, Michael Braverman, Shahram Ebadollahi, Gary Magallanes & Alex Nakos for their assistance with the design and coding of the site. Special thanks to Stephen Messer, Alex Wolfson and Carla Legendre, without whose support this project would never have been possible.

Numerous researchers and programmers have contributed to the content of the V.I.I. Special recognition should be made to Huseyin Bayazit for his invaluable contributions to international telecommunications research. Additional thanks to Leyla Arman, Miriam Brodie, Devin Burnam, Hedahne Chung, Jean Deler, Gene Fang, Leah Gandler, Omar Hafez, Michael Hilmayer, Merav Hoffman, Bill Paul, Esther Rombaut, Daniel Schaetlzer, Lynn Schlank, Elizabeth Segal, Anita Sharma, Jila Shirazi, Dahlia Sporn, Eric Stieglitz, Nettie Vasbinder, Jerome Wagner, Darin White, Marc Wollenberg, Alan Zausner and Di Zhang.

The Institute would like to especially acknowledge the support of the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, and thank Lloyd Morriset, Zoe Baird, Edith Bjornson and Cathy Clark for their efforts.