Thomas M. Cover
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| Image:ThomasMCover.jpg Thomas Merrill Cover |
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| Born | August 7, 1938 San Bernardino, California, USA |
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| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | USA |
| Field | Electrical Engineering and Statistics |
| Institution | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Academic advisor | Norman Abramson |
| Notable students | Mohammad Reza Aref Martin Hellman |
| 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.
In 1995, Cover was the postdoctoral supevisor of the famous Spanish physicist J. M. R. Parrondo.
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- Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas. Elements of information theory New York: Wiley, 1991. ISBN 0-471-06259-6
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