The Gene Brice Colloquium Series

The Gene Brice Colloquium Series is supported by contributions to the Gene Brice Colloquium Fund.

The Gene Brice Colloquium Fund for Electrical Engineering was established in 1991 in memory of William E. (Gene) Brice, B.S.E.E. '37.

April 9, 2009 - "The Communication Cost of Distributed Computing"

Abbas El Gamal, Stanford University
Webcast

March 12, 2009 -"Forces out of Nothing: Vacuum Fluctuations, Quantum Levitation and the Future of Nanomachines"

Federico Capasso, Harvard University

January 26, 2006 - "Feedback, Erasures, Zero-Errors, and More"

James L. Massey, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Webcast

September 19, 2002 - " Signal Representations: From Fourier to Wavelets and Beyond"

Martin Vetterli, Department of Communications, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

February 8, 2001 - "Not-So-Secret Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurship"

Milton Chang, New Focus, Inc. and iNCUBiC LLP

April 29, 1999 - "The automation of computer architecture: Yet another consequence of Moore's Law"

B. Ramakrishna Rau, Hewlett-Packard Labs

March 10, 1998 - "DSPs, Gigachips & Internet Made for Each Other"

Pallab Chatterjee, Texas Instruments, Inc.

Rice News Story

September 19, 1996 - "Approaching the Shannon Limit: Theorist's Dream and Practitioner's Challenge"

Andrew Viterbi, QUALCOMM Incorporated

April 12, 1994 - "Professor Katz Goes to Washington"

Professor Randy H. Katz, Computer Science Division, EECS Dept., UC-Berkeley

April 6, 1993 - "The Photonics Revolution in Telecommunications"

Dr. Herwig Kogelnik, Director, Photonics Laboratory, AT&T Laboratory