Thomas Cover

Name: Thomas M. Cover

Born: August 7, 1938, in San Bernardino, California, USA

Death: March 26, 2012 (Age: 73)

Computer-related contributions

• Information theorist and professor at Standford University.
• Invested most of his career to developing the relationship between information theory and statistics.
• Former President of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Significant publications

• Elements of Information Theory (1991).
• Open Problems in Communication and Computation.
• Authored over 120 journal papers in learning, statistical complexity, information theory and portfolio theory.

Honors and awards

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003).
• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1997).
• Selected as the Shannon Lecturer (1990).
• Outstanding Paper Award in Information Theory.
• Institute for Mathematical Statistics Fellow.
• IEEE Fellow.