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Henry Fuchs (born 20 January 1948 in

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) is a

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of the

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(AAAS) and the

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(ACM) and the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science at the

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(UNC). He is also an adjunct professor in

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. His research interests are in

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, particularly rendering algorithms, hardware,

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systems, and applications in

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. Fuchs was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to computer graphics hardware and algorithms.

Career

Fuchs started his career as a programmer and consultant at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and as an engineer and consultant at the Image Processing Laboratory of

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in the California Institute of Technology. After the completion of his PhD in computer science in 1975 at the

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, he became an adjunct associate professor of mathematical sciences and of medical computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas. In 1983 he became a professor of Computer Science at the

, and in 1988 he was promoted to the Federico Gil Distinguished Professor there, a position he still holds.

Awards and honours

In 1997 Fuchs became 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), and in 1997 he received the Satava Award of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference. In 2013 he was honored with the IEEE-VGTC Virtual Reality Career Award, and was awarded the Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics in 2015. In 2018 Henry Fuchs received an Honorary Doctorate from

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References

External links

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at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * American computer scientists Computer graphics researchers Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent 20th-century American Jews Living people Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty University of Texas at Dallas faculty University of Utah alumni Virtual reality pioneers 1948 births 21st-century American Jews {{compu-bio-stub