William E. (Gene) Brice, 1913-1991, grew up in a succession of small east Texas towns. He matriculated to Rice in 1933, where he was elected to Tau Beta Pi and worked as a teaching assistant, graduating in 1937 with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering. General Electric and Houston Lighting and Power employed him before he served as a U.S. naval officer in World War II. Gene married Marguerite Ayres Robins and had four children, two of whom are Rice alumni.
In 1948, Gene founded the W.E. Brice Company, a Houston-based company active in manufacturer's representation, fabrication, and distribution of switch-gear, industrial instrumentation, and controls. Today the business continues as BriceBarclay, under the direction of one of his sons and a grandson.
Gene Brice was a member of the Texas and National Societies of Professional Engineers, a life member of the Houston Engineering and Scientific Society and IEEE.
Upcoming Lecture
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Past Lectures
August 24, 2023 - “Towards Opening Up the Next Generations of Communications - Modularization for Innovation”
- Dr. Muriel Medard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
January 28, 2020 - "How Affective Computing can Change our Future Health"
- Dr. Rosalind W. Picard MIT Media Laboratory
January 16, 2019 - "The Future of Computing: Domain-Specific Accelerators"
- William Dally, Stanford University and NVIDIA Corporation
April 10, 2019 - "What’s Beyond 5G?"
- Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University
November 14, 2019 - "The Invention of CMOS Image Sensors: A Camera in Every Pocket"
- Eric Fossum, Dartmouth College
May 1, 2018 - "Mentoring Technical Innovation"
- James Truchard, National Instruments
April 18, 2017 - "Novel Materials for Next Generation Photonic Devices"
- Michal Lipson, Columbia University
March 9, 2016 - "On Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking and Data Science"
- Michael Jordan, UC Berkeley
February 5, 2015 - "The Internet Trajectory and Technology"
- Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA
January 23, 2013 - "Optics at the Nanoscale: Shedding new light on cross-cutting science and technologies"
- Naomi J. Halas, Rice University
April 19, 2012 - "Challenges in Cyberphysical Systems"
- P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M University
April 1, 2011 - "Statistical methods in cancer biology"
- Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, The University of Texas at Dallas
April 9, 2009 - "The Communication Cost of Distributed Computing"
- Abbas El Gamal, Stanford University
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
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.
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