Lynch is a graduate of Lowell Technological Institute (now University of Massachusetts) where he received bachelors and masters degrees in electricalengineering (1970 and 1972 respectively).
Mr. Bakrie and Mr. Panigoro share a history that goes back the prestigious Bandung Instituteof Technology, where they graduated with degrees in electricalengineering in 1973.
The two refined the idea, then consulted with an electrical-engineering professor at the California Instituteof Technology, who confirmed that the concept would work.
Eckert, named in 1982 by the InstituteofElectrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. as the engineer of the century, was clearly the engineering muscle behind the ENIAC and the Univac.
At Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, electricalengineering professor Dong Ha and his team are in the early stages of studying how to employ body heat to power a circuit.