Thomas M. Cover | |
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| Born | August 7, 1938 |
| Died | March 26, 2012 (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) |
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| 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.