Patrick Benson

Patrick M. Benson is a retired information technologist. During his career he worked with military applications, telecomm industry cost accounting and university higher education software systems. Mr. Benson is generally given credit for the first large implementations of web-centric database sockets. This is the technology that facilitates the secure, high speed and high capacity, database access required for web-centric business and commerce today.

In 2017, Mr. Benson published THRIST: A Water War Novel. The elevator speech is: The worldwide drought continues. A new US Constitution has been adopted with most federal power transferred to seven super-states. The old interstate agreements, including those for commercial traffic, electrical power and water sharing, are voided. Citizens in the Republic of California are dying for lack of water. Diplomacy fails. Sacramento must do something, anything, to secure water. The Republican Guards are ordered into Oregon to seize and divert water. Political leaders in the Pacific Northwest demand an immediate and unconditional withdrawal. While politicians in Sacramento seek delay through negotiation, the military in Spokane plans for war. Will California's secure needed water before the Pacific Northwest builds and delivers the ultimate retaliation? Will one side blink? And, will they blink quickly enough?

Due to fears this book will be used by terrorists, THIS IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE from the Amazon bookstore.

In 2016, Patrick published Social Media - A Stage Play. This work explores the roles, the power, and the impact of cyber-bullies using technology to persecute victims.

This work is available in print and Kindle versions from the Amazon bookstore.

In 2012, Mr. Benson published a collection of his database socket technical presentations and papers in Database Sockets and Web Application Development. This publication is an attempt to ensure the technology remains in the public domain in the face of corporate patent applications.

This work, which includes code samples, is available in print and Kindle versions from the

Amazon bookstore.

In 2011, Pat developed the stage play 'Hearing' that received an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Contest.

This work has never been released.