Douglas Earl Comer is a professor of computer science at Purdue University, where he teaches courses on operating systems and computer networks. He has written numerous research papers and textbooks, and currently heads several networking research projects. He has been involved in TCP/IP and internetworking since the late 1970s, and is an internationally recognized authority. He designed and implemented X25NET and Cypress networks, and the Xinu operating system. He is director of the Internetworking Research Group at Purdue, editor of Software - Practice and Experience, and a former member of the Internet Architecture Board.

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Have you ever taken a course on Computer Networks or Operating Systems? If so, there's a very high likelihood that your coursework was based on books by Doug Comer. is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University in the US. Beginning in the late 1970s he started his continuing research into TCP/IP, which has earned him international fame in the field of Computer Science and computer networking. Doug is probably responsible for educating the vast majority of network and operating system engineers in the world today. And SCALE is proud to announce that Doug will be keynoting at our 23rd Edition in Pasadena, in March 2026.

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