Thomas M. Cover

Thomas M. Cover ( born August 7, 1938 in San Bernardino, California; † 26 March 2012) held a joint professorship at the departments of electrical engineering and statistics from Stanford University. He was past president of the Society of Information Theory in the IEEE, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the IEEE. 1972 won his work " broadcast channel " the Outstanding Paper Award for Information Theory. In 1990, he won the Claude E. Shannon Award, considered the highest scientific award information in the United States. In 1997 he received the Richard W. Hamming Medal; and in 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Cover is the author of 120 technical work, co-author of the book Elements of Information Theory and Koeditor of the book Open Problems in Communication and Computation. Professor Cover engaged in 35 years of the relationship between information theory and statistics. His Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, he obtained in 1964 at Stanford University.