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GRAY THOMAS M COVER, one of the past half-century's most brilliant and prolific contributors to information and communications theory, pattern recognition and learning, and the analysis of gambling and investment strategies, died on March 26, 2012, at the age of 73.
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This technique remains one of the simplest and most powerful approaches to pattern recognition, classification, detection, and learning in engineering systems and other applications making inferences based on data. His paper "Broadcast Channels," published in 1972, announced a new direction for his work and spawned a widespread shift in emphasis of Shannon information theory from the classic single-user point-to-point communications systems to multiuser systems.
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The simple model provided a good fit for certain practical systems and inspired many extensions and variations suitable for modern communication systems. Tom's next major shift in direction began soon after, with his interest in Kolmogorov/Chaitin/Solomonoff complexity as a complement to Shannon information theory and the implications for universal coding and universal gambling schemes, algorithms with predictable and nearly optimal performance in incompletely known statistical environments.
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Shannon Lecturer, considered the highest honor for contributions to information theory, and in 1997 he received the IEEE Richard W Hamming Medal "for fundamental contributions to information and communication theory, statistics and pattern recognition." He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and
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THOMAS M COVER 61 served on the organizing committee for the National Research Council's Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Networks, the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, and a joint Academies Briefing Panel on Pattern Recognition.
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