IDIES lays the groundwork upon which human and artificial intelligence may seamlessly explore massive amounts of data, discover novel patterns and formulate new laws of Nature. Through IDIES, JHU has developed a critical advantage in core ingredients of the ongoing AI revolution: the infrastructure and expertise to design and implement large scale, heterogeneous, real-time data capture, hosting and curation. Petabytes of world-class, unique “AI-ready” scientific data sets and databases hosted by IDIES are already used by thousands of researchers worldwide.