Thomas Cover, the K.T. Li Professor of Engineering at Stanford, does
research in information theory, communication theory and statistics,
and is the coauthor of the textbook, Elements of Information Theory. He
was Lab Director of the Information Systems Laboratory in
Electrical Engineering from 1989 to 1996. He has been the contract
statistician for the California State Lottery and a consultant to
AT&T Laboratories and IBM. He received the 1990 Claude E. Shannon Award
in information theory and has also received the IEEE Neural Network
Council's Pioneer Award in 1993 for his work on the capacity of
neural nets. He received the 1997 IEEE Richard M. Hamming medal for
contributions to information, communication theory and statistics and
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently working on network
information theory and the interplay between information theory and
investment.