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Ben Messick
Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Education
- MS, Computer Science, Clemson University
- BS, Computer Science, Indiana Institute of Technology
Career Highlights
- Alpha Lambda Epsilon Honor Society
- IIT College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate
- 2005 Outstanding Contribution to the Community Justice Award
- 2008 Letter of Commendation for Life Saving Actions
Featured Scholarship
Smotherman, M., Suggs, D., Westall, M., Messick, B., et al, “Instruction Cache and TLB Behavior of a Commercial Workload on the Motorola 88110”, Submitted: June 28, 1995.
Messick, B. “Finding Irredundant Sets in Queen's Graphs Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms,” Master’s Paper, December 1995.
Biography
I have been working with computers since my parents bought me one at age 12. After college, I found a job as Navistar’s first “webmaster.” Six years later, I felt led to pivot and became a Police Officer in the Fort Wayne Police Department. In my twenty years there, I worked street patrol and helped start their full-time downtown bike patrol. Now, I am happy to be back working in computers and sharing my passion with students at Taylor. When my nose isn’t in a computer, I like to be outside capturing Creation through photography.