Henry Fuchs

Henry Fuchs
Henry Fuchs
	Fuchs speaking at NASA Langley in 2009
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Utah
Awards	Fellow of the AAAS; Fellow of the ACM; Member of the NAE; ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award; Steven Anson Coons Award
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer scientist; Biomedical engineer
Institutions	UNC; UT Dallas
Doctoral advisor	Robert P. Plummer

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]^[5] In 1992, he received both the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award and the Academic Award of the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA),^[1] and was awarded the Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics in 2015.

References

^ ^a ^b "Faculty Honors: Henry Fuchs". UNC Department of Computer Science. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
^ "Latin American Studies Scholar, Statesman Federico Gil Dies at 85". UNC News Services. May 2, 2000. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
^ "Faculty Biography: Henry Fuchs". UNC Department of Computer Science. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Henry Fuchs Home Page". UNC Department of Computer Science. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
^ "NAE Website - Dr. Henry Fuchs". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved June 6, 2013.

Henry Fuchs home page at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Henry Fuchs at DBLP Bibliography Server

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