San Diego Supercomputer Center
Jim Short is a Lead Scientist and research staff member at SDSC. He is a data scientist interested in the economics of large-scale data systems, the valuation of data and information markets, and the economic incentives and management of data privacy and data sharing. In 2018 he founded SDSC’s new blockchain research laboratory, BlockLAB. The Lab’s research goals include exploring the principal technologies and business use cases in blockchains, distributed ledgers, digital transactions, and smart contracts. He initiated SDSC’s annual data technology conferences, Data West in December, and the new Data East conference in June 2020, to be held in Washington DC. Short received his undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. He is active in IT professional organizations and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several technologies and business management journals.
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San Diego Supercomputer Center
The San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) mission is to transform research, education, and practice through Cyberinfrastructure. SDSC's experts, datacenter, computational resources, and software tools and environments are used by the academic, private, and public sector to facilitate applications, advances and promote new discovery. SDSC hosts one of the largest academic data centers in the world and is recognized as an international leader in data use, management, storage, and preservation.