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Henry Fuchs | |
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 Fuchs speaking at NASA Langley in 2009 | |
| Born | 20 January 1948 (age 76) Tokaj, Hungary |
| 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 (born 20 January 1948 in Tokaj, Hungary) is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)[1] and the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).[2] 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.[3]
Fuchs was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to computer graphics hardware and algorithms.
- ^ "Faculty Honors: Henry Fuchs". UNC Department of Computer Science. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ "Faculty Biography: Henry Fuchs". UNC Department of Computer Science. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ "Henry Fuchs Home Page". UNC Department of Computer Science. Retrieved February 10, 2010.