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Douglas Comer is a Distinguished Professor of Computer
Science at Purdue University. He is currently on leave from
Purdue, serving as Vice President of Research at Cisco
Systems.
Professor Comer is an internationally recognized expert
on computer networking and the TCP/IP protocols. He has been
working with TCP/IP and the Internet since the late 1970s.
Comer established his reputation as a principal investigator
on several early Internet research projects. He served as
chairman of the CSNET technical committee, chairman of the
DARPA Distributed Systems Architecture Board, and member of
the Internet Activities Board (the group of researchers who
built the Internet).
Comer has taught courses on TCP/IP and networking
technologies for a variety of audiences, including graduate
and undergraduate students, in-depth courses for engineers,
and less technical courses for non-engineers. He is
well-known for his series of
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Douglas Comer
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ground-breaking textbooks on computer networks, the
Internet, computer operating systems, and computer
architecture, and network processors. His books have been
translated into 16 languages, and are widely used in both
industry and academia around the world. Comer's three-volume
series Internetworking With TCP/IP is often cited as
an authoritative reference for the Internet protocols.
Comer's texts are widely recognized in academia, and have
been used by top Computer Science Departments listed in the
U.S. and other countries.
For over twenty years, Professor Comer has served as
North American editor of the research journal
Software-Practice and Experience, which is published by John
Wiley & Sons. Comer is a fellow of the ACM and the recipient
of numerous teaching awards.
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