Henry Fuchs
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Not to be confused with Henry Fox.
| Henry Fuchs | |
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 Fuchs speaking at NASA Langley in 2009 |
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| Residence | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Computer scientist Biomedical engineer |
| Institutions | North Carolina UT Dallas |
| Alma mater | Utah |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert P. Plummer |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the AAAS Fellow of the ACM Member of the NAE ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award |
Prof. Henry Fuchs is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)[1] and the Federico Gil[2] Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).[3] He is also an adjunct professor in biomedical engineering. His research interests are in computer graphics, particularly rendering algorithms, hardware, virtual environments, telepresence systems, and applications in medicine.[4] He was previously with the University of Texas at Dallas and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).[4] In 1992, he received both the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award and the Academic Award of the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA).[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Faculty Honors: Henry Fuchs". UNC Department of Computer Science. http://www.cs.unc.edu/People/Faculty/Honors/fuchs.html. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ "Latin American Studies Scholar, Statesman Federico Gil Dies at 85". UNC News Services. May 2, 2000. http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may00/gil050200.htm. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ "Faculty Biography: Henry Fuchs". UNC Department of Computer Science. http://www.cs.unc.edu/People/Faculty/Bios/fuchs.html. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ a b "Henry Fuchs Home Page". UNC Department of Computer Science. http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fuchs/. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
[edit] External links
- Henry Fuchs home page at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server.
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