Featured Member - Robert (Bob) Blackstock
Harvard Ivy+ Member, Stanford ’81, West Reno resident since 2020.
I am active in many aspects of the local Reno community, from government policy to business engagement. I am especially concerned about the environmental impact of data centers.
I grew up on a ranch in Oklahoma, studied math (number theory) at SMU in Dallas, then finished high school in Washington DC.
My interests led me to be a Silicon Valley engineer, a mergers and acquisition consultant in Los Angeles, a venture capitalist in Santa Barbara, and chief technology officer for a tech company in the Bay Area that uses my patents in fluid mechanics. My current work is writing C# code to investigate stochastic domain interfaces with possible applications in social as well as hard sciences. Finally, I play Ultimate Frisbee (similar to soccer) several times a week.
I have been very happily married to Lisa (Stanford, ’82) for 30 years. She is originally from Connecticut, has relatives in Reno, and has had her own business for 20 years in patient advocacy.