There is a revolution coming in science and engineering, driven by the massive amounts of data that today's experiments and simulations generate at exponentially growing rates. This transformation is expected to impact the very essence of how scientific discovery and engineering research is done in the near future.

The IDIES mission is to coalesce data-intensive science efforts at Johns Hopkins into a well-focused center of activity, and to propel various fields towards new discoveries and breakthroughs. By bringing together scholars from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, and the Sheridan Libraries to form interdisciplinary teams, IDIES aims to facilitate the development of tools and methods to derive knowledge from data in an exponentially expanding world.

IDIES will engage in several integrative activities, such as organizing seminars and research workshops, and working to augment the Hopkins curriculum to include data intensive and computational science. IDIES will provide intellectual oversight for the Homewood High Performance Computing Center, and establish close links to related efforts in the School of Medicine, the Applied Physics Laboratory and the School of Public Health. At a regional scale, IDIES will foster close collaborations with the University of Maryland, and beyond.