Thomas M. Cover
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Born | (1938-08-07)August 7, 1938 San Bernardino, California, U.S. |
Died | March 26, 2012(2012-03-26) (aged 73) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Stanford University (MS, PhD) |
Known for | Information theory Nearest neighbors algorithm Cover's theorem |
Awards | IEEE Fellow (1974) IMS Fellow (1981) Claude E. Shannon Award (1990) AAAS Fellow (1991) Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1995) Richard W. Hamming Medal (1997) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information theory Electrical engineering Statistics Pattern recognition |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Thesis | Geometrical and Statistical Properties of Linear Threshold Devices (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | Norman Abramson |
Doctoral students | Joy A. Thomas Mohammad Reza Aref Martin Hellman Peter E. Hart Abbas El Gamal |
Website | www-isl |
Thomas M. Cover [ˈkoʊvər] (August 7, 1938 – March 26, 2012) was an American information theorist and professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He devoted almost his entire career to developing the relationship between information theory and statistics.
Early life and education
He received his B.S. in Physics from MIT in 1960 and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1964. His doctoral studies were supervised by Norman Abramson.[1]
Career
Cover was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 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;[2] and in 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
During his 48-year career as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University, he graduated 64 PhD students, authored over 120 journal papers in learning, information theory, statistical complexity, pattern recognition, and portfolio theory; and he partnered with Joy A. Thomas to coauthor the book Elements of Information Theory,[3] which has become the most widely used textbook as an introduction to the topic since the publication of its first edition in 1991.[4] He was also coeditor of the book Open Problems in Communication and Computation.
Selected works
- Cover, T. M.; Thomas, J. A. (2006). "Chapter 12, Maximum Entropy". Elements of Information Theory (2 ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0471241954.
- T. Cover, J. Thomas (1991). Elements of Information Theory. ISBN 0-471-06259-6.
- Van Campenhout, Jan. and Cover, T. (1981). Maximum entropy and conditional probability. Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
- Cover, T. (1974). The Best Two Independent Measurements Are Not the Two Best. Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on
- Cover, T. and Hart, P. (1967). "Nearest neighbor pattern classification". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
- Cover, T. (1965). Geometrical and Statistical Properties of Systems of Linear Inequalities with Applications in Pattern Recognition. Electronic Computers, IEEE Transactions on
See also
References
- ^ Cover, Thomas (1964). Geometrical and Statistical Properties of Linear Threshold Devices (PDF) (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
- ^ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 20, 2010. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ^ "Elements of Information Theory, 2nd Edition - Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
- ^ "Thomas M. Cover In Memoriam 1938-2012". Stanford University. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
External links
- Thomas M. Cover Stanford University homepage
- Thomas M. Cover at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- 1972 Claude E. Shannon
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- 1974 David S. Slepian
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- 1976 Robert M. Fano
- 1977 Peter Elias
- 1978 Mark Semenovich Pinsker
- 1979 Jacob Wolfowitz
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- 1981 W. Wesley Peterson
- 1982 Irving S. Reed
- 1983 Robert G. Gallager
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- 1985 Solomon W. Golomb
- 1986 William Lucas Root
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- 1988 James Massey
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- 1990 Thomas M. Cover
- 1991 Andrew Viterbi
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- 1993 Elwyn Berlekamp
- 1994 Aaron D. Wyner
- 1995 George David Forney
- 1996 Imre Csiszár
- 1997 Jacob Ziv
- 1998 Neil Sloane
- 1999 Tadao Kasami
- 2000 Thomas Kailath
- 2001 Jack Keil Wolf
- 2002 Toby Berger
- 2003 Lloyd R. Welch
- 2004 Robert McEliece
- 2005 Richard Blahut
- 2006 Rudolf Ahlswede
- 2007 Sergio Verdú
- 2008 Robert M. Gray
- 2009 Jorma Rissanen
- 2010 Te Sun Han
- 2011 Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
- 2012 Abbas El Gamal
- 2013 Katalin Marton
- 2014 János Körner
- 2015 Robert Calderbank
- 2016 Alexander Holevo
- 2017 David Tse
- 2018 Gottfried Ungerboeck
- 2019 Erdal Arıkan
- 2020 Charles Bennett
- 2021 Alon Orlitsky
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- 2023 Rüdiger Urbanke
- 2024 Andrew Barron