Thomas M. Cover
Thomas M. Cover (born August 7, 1938 in San Bernardino , California; † March 26, 2012 ) held a joint professorship in the fields of electrical engineering and statistics at Stanford University . He was a former president of the Society for Information Theory at the IEEE , as well as a fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and the IEEE.
Life
He received his Ph. D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1964.
In 1972, his work Broadcast Channels won the Outstanding Paper Award for Information Theory. In 1987 he described the problem of the two-slip game . In 1990 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award , the highest information science award in the USA. In 1997 he received the Richard W. Hamming Medal ; and in 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Cover has authored 120 technical papers, co-authored the book Elements of Information Theory, and co-edited the book Open Problems in Communication and Computation . Professor Cover studied the relationship between information theory and statistics for 35 years.
literature
- Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas: Elements of information theory. New York: Wiley, 1991. ISBN 0471062596
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas M. Cover in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ The Information Structuralist. Thomas M. Cover (1938-2012). In: infostructuralist.wordpress.com. Retrieved April 5, 2012 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cover, Thomas M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Bernardino , California, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 2012 |