Joseph Mancuso

Observations

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

Within the constellation...

• My homepage at ERIM - a page I maintain for work purposes at ERIM, my place of employment.
• The North Homepage - documenting the musical work I do composing and performing. Please check this out, this is an important one.
• 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!
• 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.
• 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?
• 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.
• 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.
• 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...

• The Gentlemen, my a cappella alma mater, bringing you a cappella with the power of 100 raging buffaloes.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Beyond the Lattitude...

Neighboring Stars

Justyna Czarnecki

French/CIS major, speaker of many languages, info-tech explorer, runner; beloved and good friend.

Dave Morris

Rocket scientist, fellow engineer, ham, gamer, etc.; cool guy, old friend.

Dann Fuller

Technicolor wizard in a technological world; radio pal, Dad to Bunkin, also old friend.

Peter Rabinowitz

Psychology grad, go player, hypernumerously talented; deep guy, Arizona companion, brother, Strider.

Jeff Rogers

Computer engineer, musician, photographer, thoughtful spirit; oldest friend, kindred, Diversion.

Mike Torricelli

Civil engineer gone LSA, fellow Eagle Scout, changin' the world; the big guy, Paesan.

Brian Miller

Computer-type dude, fellow Physics of Music alumnus, football strategist; the Citrus Commando.

Craig Wesbrook

The Doctor.

James "Gino" McKenzie

Dweller of the Blazing Desert Planet of Phoenix; budding net deity, percussionist extraordinaire, RoboRally champ and good friend.

Mark Stock

THE man. Engineer extraordinaire, comp whiz, HTML God, graphics maniac... and a kick-butt ultimate player, to boot; what a guy!

Markus Nee

Ultimately cool guy. Engineer, filmmaker, musician, you name it. Mark's partner in crime, and, more recently, mine as well.

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.

The Corr Connection

The connection here is Kevin aka "Nevik" Roc-- er, Corr, long-time gaming pal and now master of the open seas!

Dan Shauver

Self-proclaimed redneck, marching band vet and engineering alum; good cook, kind friend.

Jennifer Bowen Shauver

Biologist, gamer, artist, and enthusiast of other zests for life, ElfQuest and Amber fan; Dan's wife and cool gal.

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!

Paul Schuster

Driftwood host and engineering alum - once housemate to Dave - cool guy with cool gotee.

Len Smith

Brother hunter of sorts, madman of the go-cart world, ski world, motorcycle world...; fellow Math 419 survivor and bureaucracy expatriate.

Gary "Gerry" Ciarkowski

Hobbit. Not a hobbit FAN, the real thing. Hairy toes and all...

Pran Mukherjee

Fellow web fan, UM engineer and ERIM employee; the weird guy.

Julie Raybon

Gamer extradordinaire, garbmaker, magus, antropologist; friend indeed.

Emily K. Dresner

Imagine a mildly psychotic cyber-racoon firmly addicted to caffiene and fluent in several high-datarate forms of auditory communication.

Chris Dwan

Bass. All bass. Fellow founding alum of The Gentlemen and ERIM guy; he is at peace.

Nico Angleys

ResComp guru and very cool guy; neighbor for the last of my college years.

Jason Larke

Uber. Follow, and he will gladly speak for himself.

Merrie Haskel

Mistress of Amber (my first and only GM), craftswoman and banshee of hardcore rock 'n' reel.

Kim Dillon

Tough to describe... she's just always around for the fun stuff. :)

Joe Velez

Just IMPOSSIBLE to describe. Sort of like Yoda, John Cleese and U-249 all in one...

Eric Larmouth

Advocate of peace through superior firepower and free Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters all around.

Brandon Hafeli

TMBG fan, worms warrior professional, resident for a bit; fellow improvver.

Alex van der Kleut

The man from Pennsylvania. Y'just don't need to say more than that.

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.

Jeff Balcerski

Marching band dude, UNIX/game programmer, alien fan; runs "The Random Imagination Node"

Amitaabh Malhotra

Project partner in the LAST SCHOOLWORK EVER for my Master's; car fan, free-ice-cream man, image processing guru.

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).

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.