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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.

Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer.
He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces.
These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968.
Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.

Douglas Taylor Doug Ross was an American computer scientist pioneer, and chairman of SofTech, Inc.
He is most famous for originating the term CAD for computer-aided design, and is considered to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools (APT), a programming language to drive numerical control in manufacturing.
His later work focused on a pseudophilosophy he developed and named Plex.

The Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) is a next-generation flight control system designed to provide increased safety for the crew and passengers of aircraft as well as to optimize the aircraft performance under normal conditions.
The main benefit of this system is that it will allow a pilot to control an aircraft even under failure conditions that would normally cause it to crash.
The IFCS is being developed under the direction of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center with the collaboration of the NASA Ames Research Center, Boeing Phantom Works, the Institute for Scientific Research at West Virginia University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Sarah Ann Douglas is a distinguished computer scientist, known for her work in human-computer interaction (HCI), a field of computer science that she has helped pioneer, and, in particular, pointing devices and haptic interactions, WWW interfaces and bioinformatics, and visualization and visual interfaces.
She is a Professor Emerita of Computer and Information Science and a member of the Computational Science Institute at the University of Oregon.