Joseph Mancuso
Welcome to my piece of the sky.
Explore - no guarantees.
Observations
- a brief summary -
Rather than find time to describe myself and my interests online, this page
has become a center of reference from which the curious can find out what
I'm about. I figure that's at least just as good.
This page is very much under constant revision.
Certain areas, like the ISMAP above and the lists of
links below, will likely be growing and changing indefinitely, so
do drop by now and then and check it out.
The ISMAP above is finally full - every star (or small group in the case
of very close neighbors) goes somewhere. Only 4 go to the "Unexplored
Star Page"; if you can find all 4 without cheating, you're an exploring vet.
Don't stop there, though... they're always changing!
I hope you enjoy exploring and stop by now and then to see what's new.
Feedback is welcome, just get in touch with me.
Please let me know of any errors. More as I get to it.
Oh, and please feel free to peruse the
Guestbook,
which I maintain on my ERIM account. You can also
add your own entry directly from here...
feel free.
For those more professionally curious, a
text version of my current resume is
available. A PostScript version is also
available for the so enabled.
Right Ascension
& Declination
This is the area containing connections to other areas of the sky.
Those here are pages I maintain, groups and projects I was/am involved with,
and friends with pages. The Beyond the Lattitude
section handles the larger bookmark list. Feedback is always welcome.
Within the constellation...
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My homepage at ERIM - a page I
maintain for work purposes at ERIM, my place of
employment.
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The North Homepage - documenting the musical work I do
composing and performing. Please check this out, this is an important one.
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BurCon IV Homepage - BurCon was a mid-size gaming con I
helped promote in Bursley Hall, my home at the U of M, during my 3 years as
an RA there. This page documents the last great hurrah for BurCon!
...except for BurCon V, of course! It came back
as a surprise to us all!
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The Band Names Homepage -
Got a band? Thinking of starting one? This is your page!
This is a growing
list of ideas for band names. If you'd like to submit some, use one, or
let us know of one that's in use, check it out and let
me know.
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Mysteries of Strangiato Homepage -
a page of online resources for players of, or those interested in, my
variant 2nd Edition AD&D campaign based somewhat on the music of
Rush. Sure, I roleplay. Why? Don't you?
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EECS 556 Page Catalog - This is a list of my web
resources for EECS 556 during Winter 1996, a class I took in image
processing towards my MSE. It's meager, but there.
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EECS 503 Final Project - This is some of the
results from our final group project in EECS 503 during Fall 1995. It
has some neat sounds and stuff.
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My Entry to the Contest for the Ann Arbor
Summer League Disc design for 1998 - this was an entry for the disc
design contest for my league in '98. Since I didn't win, I altered the
design a bit and resubmitted it for '99!
:)
Circumpolar positions...
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The Gentlemen,
my a cappella alma mater,
bringing you a cappella with the power of 100 raging buffaloes.
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ERIM International, Inc., formerly a
part of the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, is
an independent research facility at which I worked during the summer of 1995,
and do now full time doing signal and image processing, system design and
programming.
EII on the whole specializes in optics and remote sensing technologies,
and I initally worked on sensor projects as part of the
System Concepts Division of the Electro-Optics Laboratory. In the field of
sensor technology, EII as a whole is one of the leaders.
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International Associates Consulting is a computer equipment and support
provider run by my good friends
Mike Torricelli and David
Torrente. IAC's name was born out of the International
Associates, a loosely defined group of some of my closest mutual
friends. Our 'boundaries' are not
really important, but also included in this crew are the postforementioned
Dave Morris, Brian Miller,
Marc Renouf,
Peter Rabinowitz, and Jeff
Rogers.
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The Potlatch Project, part of my independent study in Music Composition
during Winter 1996, is a project headed up by
Steev Hise at
Cal Arts.
Basically the idea is a MIDI/multimedia "Net Jam" of sorts, and was featured
in the Winter 1996 DME concert.
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The Digital Music Ensemble is the
School Of Music's
ensemble for multimedia, algorithmic composition, synth improv, MIDI madness
and anything else that's on the edge (of something).
The ensemble, with whom I worked for a few terms at the 'U', is headed up by
Stephen
Rush, and puts on a free show every term.
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The Stuyvesant High School
Alumni Assoc., of which I suppose I am a member just by being an
alumnus, has their own page set up to represent my high
school on the web. "Stuy High" also
has its own web project going.
This section lists other locations on the web I wanted to keep a record of
online. The categories, descriptions and ratings on the page should help
you find the cool stuff.
Neighboring
Stars
- a partial listing loosely grouped by constellation
and declination -
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Justyna Czarnecki
- French/CIS major, speaker of many languages, info-tech explorer, runner;
beloved and good friend.
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Dave Morris
- Rocket scientist, fellow engineer, ham, gamer, etc.; cool guy,
old friend.
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Dann Fuller
- Technicolor wizard in a technological world; radio pal, Dad to Bunkin,
also old friend.
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Peter Rabinowitz
- Psychology grad, go player, hypernumerously talented;
deep guy, Arizona companion, brother, Strider.
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Jeff Rogers
- Computer engineer, musician, photographer, thoughtful spirit; oldest
friend, kindred, Diversion.
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Mike Torricelli
- Civil engineer gone LSA, fellow Eagle Scout, changin' the world;
the big guy, Paesan.
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Brian Miller
- Computer-type dude, fellow Physics of Music alumnus, football strategist;
the Citrus Commando.
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Craig Wesbrook
- The Doctor.
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James "Gino" McKenzie
- Dweller of the Blazing Desert Planet of Phoenix; budding net deity,
percussionist extraordinaire, RoboRally champ and good friend.
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Mark Stock
- THE man. Engineer extraordinaire, comp whiz, HTML God, graphics maniac...
and a kick-butt ultimate player, to boot; what a guy!
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Markus Nee
- Ultimately cool guy. Engineer, filmmaker, musician, you name it.
Mark's partner in crime, and, more recently, mine as well.
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Marc Renouf
- Martial arts afficionado, roleplaying and sourcework enthusiast and
fellow ERIM engineer, among many other things; old
friend and many-time accomplice. WARNING: His page is so under-construction,
you may not believe it.
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The Corr Connection
- The connection here is Kevin aka "Nevik" Roc-- er, Corr, long-time
gaming pal and now master of the open seas!
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Dan Shauver
- Self-proclaimed redneck, marching band vet and engineering alum;
good cook, kind friend.
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Jennifer Bowen Shauver
- Biologist, gamer, artist, and enthusiast of other zests for life,
ElfQuest and Amber fan; Dan's wife and cool gal.
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Dylan Morris
- The newest addition to the Morris clan, Dylan is
Dave's new nephew, the son of his brother Dan and his
wife Jen (Dan's wife, not Dave's); a young guy to have his own page!
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Paul Schuster
- Driftwood host and engineering alum - once housemate to
Dave - cool guy with cool gotee.
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Len Smith
- Brother hunter of sorts, madman of the go-cart world, ski world,
motorcycle world...; fellow Math 419 survivor and bureaucracy expatriate.
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Gary "Gerry"
Ciarkowski
- Hobbit. Not a hobbit FAN, the real thing. Hairy toes and all...
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Pran Mukherjee
- Fellow web fan, UM engineer and ERIM employee;
the weird guy.
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Julie Raybon
- Gamer extradordinaire, garbmaker, magus, antropologist; friend
indeed.
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Emily K.
Dresner
- Imagine a mildly psychotic cyber-racoon firmly addicted to caffiene
and fluent in several high-datarate forms of auditory communication.
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Chris Dwan
- Bass. All bass. Fellow founding alum of The
Gentlemen and ERIM guy; he is at peace.
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Nico Angleys
- ResComp guru and very cool guy; neighbor for the last of my
college years.
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Jason Larke
- Uber. Follow, and he will gladly speak for himself.
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Merrie Haskel
- Mistress of Amber (my first and only GM), craftswoman and banshee of
hardcore rock 'n' reel.
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Kim Dillon
- Tough to describe... she's just always around for the fun stuff.
:)
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Joe Velez
- Just IMPOSSIBLE to describe. Sort of like Yoda, John Cleese and
U-249 all in one...
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Eric Larmouth
- Advocate of peace through superior firepower and free Pan Galactic
Gargle Blasters all around.
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Brandon Hafeli
- TMBG fan, worms warrior professional, resident for a bit; fellow
improvver.
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Alex van der
Kleut
- The man from Pennsylvania. Y'just don't need to say more than that.
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Dan Winningham
- Known best to me as the curios-shop owner Tobias, I just know him as
a cool and downright friendly guy. He also helps take good care of Em.
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Jeff Balcerski
- Marching band dude, UNIX/game programmer, alien fan; runs
"The Random Imagination Node"
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Amitaabh
Malhotra
- Project partner in the LAST SCHOOLWORK EVER for my Master's; car fan,
free-ice-cream man, image processing guru.
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James Huth
- ALSO project partner in the LAST SCHOOLWORK EVER; EE Systems grad
student, driving photographer, much more fun than he lets on (he's
sneaky).
Reaching Out
How to get in touch with me in the "real world".
Drop me a line via e-mail to reliably get in touch with
me. My e-mail address, mancuso@umich.edu is more reliable
than my actual
address, but if you'd like to reach me in any other way, I defer you to
my entry in the U of M x500 Directory for phone and snailmail addresses.
Last modified 20 July 1998
mancuso@umich.edu