Publisher Marvel Comics | Team affiliations Stark Industries | |
First appearance Iron Man #298 (November 1993) | ||
H.O.M.E.R. (short for Heuristically Operative Matrix Emulation Rostrum) is an artificial intelligence for Iron Man from Marvel Comics.
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Publication history
H.O.M.E.R. first appeared in Iron Man #298.
Fictional character biography
20 years ago, Tony Stark and Abe Zimmer developed powerful software that was designed to design and program the computers. This software designed a small factory and all of its contents. That factory system in turn developed a computer and software that designed five generations of ever-better and more powerful computer platforms. That fifth generation computer achieved an information density double that of the human brain....and it could think. The computer system could do self-directed projects where it can even write programming while also collating and analyzing any type of data. Using the same revolutionary manufacturing techniques developed for the Iron Man armor, Tony made it the size of a standard desktop PC, calling it H.O.M.E.R. and put it in charge of all of Tony's secret manufacturing projects in Stark Enterprises. H.O.M.E.R. resided in the armory (located in Sub-Level 3) and can project a hologram of himself when interacting with Stark when he came in to check up on the development of his latest armor. When Deathlok breaks into Stark Enterprises, H.O.M.E.R. alerts Tony about this.
Powers and abilities
H.O.M.E.R. can operate any computer that he can access into at Stark Industries. He can also project a hologram whenever he interracts with Tony Stark. H.O.M.E.R. can also make contact with Iron Man within the armor.