Name: Thomas M. Cover

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

Death: March 26, 2012 (Age: 73)

  • 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.