Thomas M. Cover

Thomas M. Cover was an 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. Cover was past President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Information Theory Society and was a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 

During his 48-year career as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University, he graduated 64 Doctor of Philosophy students, authored over 120 journal papers in learning, information theory, statistical complexity, and portfolio theory. And he coauthored 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 was also coeditor of the book Open Problems in Communication and Computation.