# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-comer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:41:10.984Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-comer"
name: "Douglas Comer"
slug: "douglas-comer"
description: "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. Comer completed the original version of Xinu in 1979. Since then, Xinu has been expanded and ported to a wide variety of platforms, including: IBM PC, Macintosh, Digital Equipment Corporation VAX and DECstation 3100, Sun Microsystems Sun-2, Sun-3 and SPARCstations, and Intel Pentium. It has been used as the basis for many research projects. Furthermore, Xinu has been used as an embedded system in products by companies such as Motorola, Mitsubishi, Hewlett-Packard, and Lexmark."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Douglas_Earl_Comer_-_Internet_Hall_of_Fame_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.49
  momentum:             5.625
  historical:           6.542837333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/docomer/"
    handle:    "docomer"
sources:
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    title: "Douglas Comer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دوغلاس كومر"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Comer"
    title: "Douglas Comer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Comer"
    title: "Douglas Comer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Comer"
    title: "Douglas Comer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ダグラス・カマー"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Earl_Comer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump