The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today some $31 million in awards for 17 innovative projects geared toward the promotion of data science and a robust data infrastructure. The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to improve the nation’s capacity in data science by investing in the development of infrastructure, making it easer to use data, and increasing the number of skilled data scientists. The NSF is taking a building block approach to data science. Beyond the hardware, software and networking components, there is the human element, the research community. The current awards are considered an extension of las One of these awards went to Geoffrey Fox, a professor of computer science and informatics at Indiana University, who is developing middleware and analytics libraries to support the scaling of data science on high-performance computers. Test applications come from the fields of geospatial information systems (GIS), biomedicine, epidemiology and remote sensing. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/10/01/nsf-promotes-data-science-31m-award/.