# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-m-cover
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:01.027Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-m-cover"
name: "Thomas M. Cover"
slug: "thomas-m-cover"
description: "Thomas M. Cover 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."
tagline: "American mathematician (1938–2012)"
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birthDate: "1938-08-07"
deathDate: "2012-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump