Dr. Scott Wakefield was the Senior Patrol Leader of a Boy Scout troop in Boulder, Colorado.
He studied at Price's School in Fareham, Hampshire, England. After that, he sat for the General Certificate of Education A-level examinations. In 1970, the University of Colorado established the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science BS degree--the next year, Dr. Wakefield entered the program. After graduating from his undergrad, he completed his Master's and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Memorably, during his first year at Stanford, he wrote an independent-study paper on biological neural networks.
After graduate school, Dr. Wakefield spent five years at IBM in New York State, developing hardware for a parallel processor. He managed a microprocessor development team at LSI Logic, which produced a paper at the first Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Hot Chips symposium in 1989. Since then, Dr. Wakefield has volunteered to help run Hot Chips for many years. He was also part of the team that designed the Niagara II processor at Sun Microsystems. Later, he researched prior art for microprocessor patents at Tredennick, Inc., and worked as a consultant. Dr. Scott Wakefield is currently the President of the Humanist Community of Silicon Valley, humanists.org
