The Bernard Price Memorial Lecture is the premier annual lecture of the

South African Institute of Electrical Engineers The South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) is a professional association representing electrical and electronic engineers, technologists and technicians in Southern Africa. The organisation is listed as a recognised Voluntary Asso ...

. It is of general scientific or engineering interest and is given by an invited guest, often from overseas, at several of the major centres on

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. The main lecture and accompanying dinner are usually held at the

University of Witwatersrand The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (), is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University or Wits ( or ). The university ...

and it is also presented in the space of one week at other centres, typically Cape Town, Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth. The Lecture is named in memory of the eminent electrical engineer

Bernard Price Dr. Bernard Price, OBE, (1877 – 9 July 1948) was the founding Chief Engineer and later General Manager of the Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company in South Africa between 1911 and 1936. Price was born in England, in 1877 and was empl ...

. The first Lecture was held in 1951 and it has occurred as an annual event ever since.

Lecturers

:1951

Basil Schonland Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland OMG CBE FRS (2 February 1896 – 24 November 1972) was noted for his research on lightning, his involvement in the development of radar during World War II and for being the first president of the South ...

:1952 A M Jacobs :1953 H J Van Eck :1954 J M Meek :1955

Frank Nabarro Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro MBE OMS FRS (7 March 1916 – 20 July 2006) was an English-born South African physicist and one of the pioneers of solid-state physics, which underpins much of 21st-century technology. Education Born 7 March 19 ...

:1956 A L Hales :1957 P G Game :1958

Colin Cherry Edward Colin Cherry (23 June 1914 – 23 November 1979) was a British cognitive scientist whose main contributions were in focused auditory attention, specifically the cocktail party problem regarding the capacity to follow one conversatio ...

:1959

Thomas Allibone Thomas Edward Allibone, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (11 November 1903 – 9 September 2003) was an England, English physicist. His work included important research into particle physics, X-rays, high voltag ...

:1960 M G Say :1961 Willis Jackson :1963 W R Stevens :1964 William Pickering :1965 G H Rawcliffe :1966

Harold Bishop Harold Wayne Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Ian Smith. The actor was offered the role by the show's creator and executive producer Reg Watson. Smith made his first screen appearance as H ...

:1967 Eric Eastwood :1968 F J Lane :1969 A H Reeves :1970 Andrew R Cooper :1971

Herbert Haslegrave Herbert Leslie Haslegrave (1902–1999) was a British engineering academic who developed Loughborough Technical College into Loughborough University of Technology, and was its first Vice-Chancellor. Education Haslegrave was born in Yorkshire ...

:1972 W J Bray :1973 R Noser :1974 D Kind :1975 L Kirchmayer :1976 S Jones :1977 J Johnson :1978 T G E Cockbain :1979 A R Hileman :1980 James Redmond :1981 L M Muntzing :1982 K F Raby :1983 R Isermann :1984 M N John :1985 J W L de Villiers :1986

Derek Roberts Sir Derek Harry Roberts, (28 March 1932 – 17 February 2021) was an English engineer who twice served as provost of University College London (UCL), from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2002 to 2003.‘ROBERTS, Sir Derek (Harry)’, Who's Who 2 ...

:1987 Wolfram Boeck :1988 Karl Gehring :1989 Leonard Sagan :1990 GKF Heyner :1991 P S Blythin :1992 P M Neches :1993 P Radley :1994 P R Rosen :1995 F P Sioshansi :1996 J Taylor :1997 M Chamia :1998 C Gellings :1999 M W Kennedy :2000 John Midwinter :2001 Pragasen Pillay :2002

Polina Bayvel Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel (russian: link=no, Полина Леопольдовна Байвель; born 14 April 1966) is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Elec ...

:2003 Case Rijsdijk :2004 Frank Larkins :2005

Igor Aleksander Igor Aleksander FREng (born 26 January 1937) is an emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. He worked in artificial intelligence and neural networks a ...

:2006

Kevin Warwick Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954) is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done ...

:2007 Skip Hatfield :2008

Sami Solanki Sami Khan Solanki (born 1958 in Karachi, Pakistan) is director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), director of the Sun-Heliosphere Department of MPS, a scientific member of the Max Planck Society, and a Chair (and spo ...

:2009 William Gruver :2010

Glenn Ricart Glenn Ricart is a computer scientist. He was influential in the development of the Internet (ARPANET) going back to 1969 and early implementation of the TCP/IP protocol. Since then he has been active in technology and business as well as donat ...

:2011 Philippe Paelinck :2012 Nick Frydas :2013

Vint Cerf Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include t ...

:2014 Ian Jandrell :2015

Saurabh Sinha Saurabh Sinha is an influential South African engineer and a Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation at the University of Johannesburg. He was previously the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Envir ...

:2016

Tshilidzi Marwala Tshilidzi Marwala (born 28 July 1971) is a South African artificial intelligence engineer, a computer scientist, a mechanical engineer and a university administrator. Early life and education Marwala was born at Duthuni Village in the Limp ...

:2017

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo Fulufhelo Vincent Nelwamondo ( OMS) is an electrical engineer by training, and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Computational Intelligence) from the University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa. He is the youngest recipient of the Harv ...

:2018 Ian Craig :2019

Robert Metcalfe Robert Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an engineer and entrepreneur from the United States who helped pioneer the Internet starting in 1970. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the e ...

:2020 Roger Price :2021

Saifur Rahman {{Short description, Male name Saifur Rahman (Saudi Arabia ar, سيف الرحمن }) is a male Muslim given name, meaning ''sword of the Most Gracious''. سيفور meaning Saifur in arabic. This may refer to: *Akhundzada Saif-ur-Rahman Mubara ...

:2022

Stuart J. Russell Stuart Jonathan Russell (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct ...

References

Awards established in 1951 Price, Bernard Electrical engineering awards {{engineering-stub

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