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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Thomas Cover papers
Creator:
Cover, Thomas
Identifier/Call Number: SC1129
Identifier/Call Number: 17649
Physical Description:
75 Linear Feet
and 128 megabytes
Date (inclusive): circa
1964-2011
Born in San Bernardino, California, on August 7, 1938, Thomas M. Cover received a B.S. in
physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees,
both in electrical engineering, from Stanford in 1961 and 1964, respectively.
Cover joined the faculty at the Stanford School of Engineering in 1964, becoming a
professor in 1972. He directed Stanford's Information Systems Laboratory from 1988 to 1996.
In 1994, he was named the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Statistics.
In 1990, the Information Theory Society of the IEEE awarded him the Claude E. Shannon
Award, the highest honor for lifetime achievement in information theory. In 1997, the IEEE
awarded him the Richard W. Hamming medal for "fundamental work in information theory,
statistics and pattern recognition."
Cover was past president of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering, and named as a Fellow by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the IEEE. In 2003, he
was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Materials in Box 3 of Accession ARCH-2018-088 are restricted for 75 years from date of
creation. Otherwise, materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not
available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
[identification of item], Thomas Cover Papers (SC1129). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, 2012, 2018, & 2019
This collection primarily consists of correspondence, notes, teaching materials,
publications, and administrative files. It also includes photographs.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Universities and colleges -- Faculty.
Engineering -- Study and teaching.
Information theory.
Stanford University -- Faculty housing.