Thomas M. Cover

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**Thomas M. Cover**
Image:ThomasMCover.jpg Thomas Merrill Cover
Born	August 7, 1938 San Bernardino, California, USA
Residence	USA
Nationality	USA
Field	Electrical Engineering and Statistics
Institution	Stanford University
Alma Mater	Stanford University
Academic Advisor	Norman Abramson
Notable Students	Normonds Alens, Paul Algoet, Mohammad Reza Aref, Michael Baer, Andrew Barron, Patrick Bergmans, Jerry Cashen, Vittorio Castelli, Mung Chiang, B.S. Choi, Tom Chung Tiglon, Max H.M. Costa, Paul Cuff, Suhas N. Diggavi, Laura Ekroot Husman, Abbas El Gamal, Will H.R. Equitz, Elza Erkip, Paul Fahn, George Gemelos, David H. Gluss, Cordell Green, Peter Hart, Navid Hassanpour, Chris Heegard, Martin Hellman, Patrick Hirschler, Dirk Hughes-Hartogs, Garud Iyengar, Keith Jarett, David Julian, Carroll Keillors, Young-Han Kim, Don Kimber, Roger King, Yiannis Kontoyiannis, Amos Lapidoth, Dave C. Larson, Bob Latta, Charles Mathis, Andrew B. Nobel, Erik Ordentlich, Rich Pasco, Sandeep Pombra, Jim R. Roche, William Rogers III, Daniel Sagalowicz, Masoud Salehi, Styrmir Sigurjonsson, Aaron Shenhar, Hal Stern, Bruno O. Subert, Arak Sutivong, Joshua Sweetkind-Singer, C.P. Tan, Mike Tanner, André Tchen, Joy A. Thomas, Mitchell D. Trott, Jan Van Campenhout, Dennis Wilson, Jon Yard, Assaf Zeevi
Known for	Information theory
Notable Prizes	Claude E. Shannon Award (1990), Richard W. Hamming Medal (1997),

Thomas M. Cover (born August 7, 1938 in San Bernardino, California) is Professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He is past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and is a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and of the IEEE. In 1972 he received the Outstanding Paper Award in Information Theory for his paper Broadcast Channels; he was selected in 1990 as the Shannon Lecturer, regarded as the highest honor in information theory; in 1997 he received the Richard W. Hamming Medal; and in 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author of 120 technical papers, he is coauthor of the book Elements of Information Theory and coeditor of the book Open Problems in Communication and Computation. Professor Cover has devoted the last 35 years to developing the relationship between information theory and statistics. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1964.