My aunt had small sheets of rubber for the purpose of opening jars. She referred to them as her rubber husbands.

She also didn't realize how exactly that might sound until I gave a wide-eyed response.

flea: Lester Ferdinand Borchardt

edit: I take it back, that's the wrong electrical engineer

He invented Cheeros in 1941, but my guy is looking for the professor mentioned here: [link] at the bottom.

Boy have I learned a lot about making cereal, though. High temperature short time extrusion cooking technology, babyee!

Does anyone know how to find out if a company (say AT&T) has a head honcho for customer relations over all the companies within the umbrella? And how to get contact info for such a person?

my guy is looking for the professor mentioned here

Your guy needs to stop believing everything he reads on the Internet.

Alternatively, that professor needs better marketing skills.

Have you searched patents? (eta: they'd probably be held by GM, not the professor, thinking about it)

edit#2: Why don't you call the engineering library at MIT - they might have heard this question before.

Random question: Does anybody else, when printing by hand, make their zeros and letter Os starting at the bottom? Or am I the lone freak to do that?

We've looked at patents. Boy are there a lot of patents about cereal. Honestly, I'm not sure why my guy is fixated on this one name - there is so much about this technology in general that he could be using (that I have found for him!). Yeah, I think MIT is a good next step. I tried their web site, but will contact them directly. Thanks.

my guy is looking for the professor mentioned here: [link] at the bottom.

I strongly suspect that your guy is looking for an urban legend: consider (a) the vagueness-yet-credentiallyness of "an MIT professor", (b) the fact that the process described is pretty much what they were already doing, and (c) 100 pounds an hour? Come the frak on. If I were General Mills, I wouldn't be paying for a machine that cranked less than 10K an hour.

I strongly suspect that your guy is looking for an urban legend

I do, too, since this story doesn't seem to come up any place else. I suspect that the original electrical engineering professor's story and some other one have been crossed and re-hatched as Internet wisdom.

aurelia, my guess is no, they don't, but you might try calling a main number and asking for one of these people, maybe Mr. de la Vega. (I mean, not that you'll get him on the phone, but someone in his office could probably answer your question, at least.)