James J. Masanz

I am an alum of the Computer Sciences Department of UW-Madison.

More recently, I completed the Actuarial Science Capstone Certificate Program at UW-Madison.

Publications

I moved my publications list to a separate page.

Names

My user ID (aranduil) comes from the name of a character I played as part of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons.  It is a name I created based on some Elvish names in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.  I pronounce Aranduil as uh-RAN-du-ill.  This name never appears in Tolkien's works to my knowledge.

My nickname, to those I played ultimate with, is Beacon.

Other Links

• A list.
• An online woodworking store.
• A site that sells Block Oil for wooden cutting boards, butcher blocks, etc.
• The official Star Wars site.
• Ulcers can be caused by bacteria.

• Validate this HTML page.
• HTML Validation Service from W3C.
• HTML faq from Web Design Group.
• Network connection speed test

Teaching related info

• My teaching and learning philosophy
• Education/Teaching resources

Contact information

james.masanz@wisc.edu

Grad school for Computer Science

I wrote a sketch of information about my grad school experiences.

My graphics professor has some grad school advice online.
 

Before grad school

Before returning to Madison for grad school, I lived in Minnesota, where I worked first for IBM and then for Insight Software.

Before that, I did my undergraduate work at UW-Madison.
 

Just after grad school

After I received my Masters degree, I spent a year teaching for the Mathematics Department at UW-Madison.

For the fall 2001 semester I was one of the many instructors for Math 112 - College Algebra.

For the spring 2002 semester, I taught a "discussion" section of Calculus with Algebra and Trigonometry II for the Wisconsin Emerging Scholars (WES) program.
 

This page is maintained by James Masanz and was last changed April 5, 2024.
It needs to be properly updated though.