Thomas M. Cover
| Thomas M. Cover | |
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| Born | August 7, 1938 San Bernardino, California, U.S. |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering and Statistics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Abramson |
| Doctoral students |
Mohammad Reza Aref |
| Known for | Information theory |
| Notable awards | Claude E. Shannon Award (1990), Richard W. Hamming Medal (1997), |
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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 has devoted the last 35 years to developing the relationship between information theory and statistics.
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[edit] Early life and education
He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1964.
[edit] Career
Cover is past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and is a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and of the IEEE. He received the Outstanding Paper Award in Information Theory for his 1972 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 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal;[1] 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, which has become the most widely used textbook as an introduction to the topic since the publication of its first edition in 1991. He is also a coeditor of the book Open Problems in Communication and Computation.
[edit] References
- ^ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/documents/hamming_rl.pdf. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
[edit] Further reading
- Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas. Elements of information theory New York: Wiley, 1991. ISBN 0-471-06259-6
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