Douglas Earl Comer (or Douglas Comer) is an author and professor best known for his work in the early development of the Internet.

Dr Comer holds a BS in Mathematics and Physics from Houghton College earned in 1971 and a PhD in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University earned in 1976.

Comer came back to Purdue University in August 2009, prior to that he was Vice President of Research for computer networking company Cisco Systems.^[1]

He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University in the US.

Beginning in the late 1970's he started his continuing research into TCP/IP, which has earned him international notoriety in the field of Computer Science and computer networking.

Douglas Comer headed a number of research projects associated with the creation of the Internet, and is the author of a number of books on Operating Systems, the Internet and TCP/IP networking, and computer architecture.

Dr Comer is also the developer of the Xinu operating system.

Dr Comer is well-known for his series of ground breaking textbooks on computer networks, the Internet, computer operating systems, and computer architecture. His books have been translated into sixteen languages, and are widely used in both industry and academia. Comer's three-volume series Internetworking With TCP/IP is often cited as an authoritative reference for the Internet protocols. More significantly, Comer's texts have been used by fifteen of the top sixteen Computer Science Departments listed in the U.S. News and World Report ranking.

For twenty years, Professor Comer served as editor-in-chief of the research journal Software--Practice And Experience, published by John Wiley & Sons. Comer is a Fellow of the ACM and the recipient of numerous teaching awards.

• Comer's homepage at Purdue University
• Information about all of Comer's books
• List of Dougles Comer's books published by Prentice Hall
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