CNET (Sept. 17) -- One of the stars of last week’s Apple event wasn’t a well-known name or even a regular on stage for product demonstrations. Instead, it was a person who once cheered as a steamroller (and blender and dynamite) demolished an iPhone. That man was Illinois alumnus Kevin Lynch. It was Lynch who had Apple CEO Tim Cook’s trust to show off Apple’s newest baby -- the Apple Watch. Lynch studied interactive computer graphics at Illinois, working with artists and engineers in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory.