The generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides start-up funds for an initial two-year period. The O.K.I. project is designed to evolve into an ongoing community effort. MIT and Stanford University are leading the initiative, and a number of key collaborator universities are contributing valuable resources to defining the O.K.I. architecture.

Management

Vijay Kumar: Principal Investigator, MIT

Jeff Merriman: Project Leader, MIT

Scott Thorne: Lead Architect, MIT

Lois Brooks: Project Coordinator, Stanford

Phil Long: Outreach Coordinator, MIT

Jud Harward: Educational Systems Architect, MIT

Charles Kerns: Educational Systems Architect, Stanford

Mark Brown: Project Manager, MIT

Bill Fitzgerald: Finance Manager, MIT

Judith Leonard: Project Administrator, MIT

 

Core Collaborators

The following institutions are core collaborators to the Open Knowledge Initiative, and are contributing resources and expertise to the O.K.I. project.

Cambridge University

Dartmouth College

Indiana University Bloomington

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

North Carolina State University

Stanford University

University of Michigan

University of Pennsylvania

University of Wisconsin, Madison