The Bernard Price Memorial Lecture is the premier annual lecture of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. 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

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

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and it is also presented in the space of one week at other centres, typically

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and Port Elizabeth. The Lecture is named in memory of the eminent electrical engineer Bernard Price. 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 1 ...

: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 conversati ...

:1959 Thomas Allibone :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 :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 :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 (; born 14 April 1966) is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She has ...

:2003 Case Rijsdijk :2004 Frank Larkins :2005 Igor Aleksander :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 :2009 William Gruver :2010 Glenn Ricart :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 Robert Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that inclu ...

:2014 Ian Jandrell :2015 Saurabh Sinha :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. He is currently Rector (academia), Rector of the United Nations University ...

:2017 Fulufhelo Nelwamondo :2018 Ian Craig :2019

Robert Metcalfe Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which desc ...

:2020 Roger Price :2021

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:2022 Stuart J. Russell :2023 Jan Meyer :2024 Vukosi Marivate

References

Recurring events established in 1951 Price, Bernard Electrical engineering awards 1951 establishments in South Africa Engineering education Annual events in South Africa {{engineering-stub

Lecturers

See also

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