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'''Henry Fuchs''' is the Federico Gil Professor of [[Computer Science]], Adjunct Professor of [[Biomedical Engineering]], and Adjunct Professor of [[Radiation oncologist|Radiation Oncology]] at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. He has been active in [[computer graphics]] since the early 1970s, with [[Rendering (computer graphics)|rendering]] [[algorithm]]s (BSP Trees), hardware (Pixel-Planes and PixelFlow), virtual environments, tele-immersion systems and medical applications. He received a Ph.D. in 1975 from the [[University of Utah]]. He was a member of the faculty of the [[University of Texas at Dallas]] from 1975 to 1978. He joined the faculty at UNC in 1978. He is a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]], a [[fellow]] of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the recipient of the 1992 [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] [[SIGGRAPH]] Achievement Award, and the 1992 Academic Award of the [[National Computer Graphics Association]]. |
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'''Prof. Henry Fuchs''' is a [[fellow]] of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (AAAS) and the [[Federico Gil]] [[Professors in the United States|Professor]] of [[Computer science|Computer Science]] at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] (UNC). He is also an [[Professors in the United States|adjunct professor]] in [[biomedical engineering]]. His research interests are in [[computer graphics]], particularly [[Rendering (computer graphics)|rendering algorithms]], [[Video card|hardware]], [[Virtual reality|virtual environments]], [[telepresence]] systems, and applications in [[medicine]]. He was previously with the [[University of Texas at Dallas]] and is a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (NAE). In 1992, he received both the [[ACM SIGGRAPH]] Achievement Award and the Academic Award of the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA). |
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* [http://www.cs.unc.edu/ |
* [http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fuchs/ Henry Fuchs home page] at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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==See also== |
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* [[Fred Brooks]] |
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* [[Ming C. Lin]] |
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* [[Dinesh Manocha]] |
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Henry Fuchs | |
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| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Utah |
| Awards | Fellow of the AAAS Member of the NAE ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer scientist Biomedical engineer |
| Institutions | North Carolina UT Dallas |
Prof. Henry Fuchs is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). 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. He was previously with the University of Texas at Dallas and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). In 1992, he received both the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award and the Academic Award of the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA).
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