Finding Marcus's picture I've seen the guy around sometime this academic year but don't know him. He has a really nice set of wheels (powered) on his web page http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bohlemma/ but nothing more.
As a more related note I'm not sure how much twisted spokes would help as they shorten the spokes by different ammounts and therefore it seems you would need spokes of two different lengths to string a wheel. The spokes on the outside have farther to go to get to the center than the ones on the inside, and the same going out. The only way I could think of that helping is if they changed the spoke order such that holes say, 1,2,3,and 4 on the hub went to nipples 2,1,4,and 3 on the rim, but even that might not even things perfectly and it does wierd stuff to the tension levels.