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Henry Fuchs

Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering

(919) 962-1911 (Voice)
(919) 962-1882, 962-1799 (Fax)
email: fuchs at cs.unc.edu

Assistant: Ginny Turner
(919) 962-1851 (Voice)
email: gturner at cs.unc.edu

Department of Computer Science
209 Sitterson Hall, CB 3175
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 USA
Phone: (919) 962-1700
Fax: (919) 962-1799

Biography

Henry Fuchs is the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UNC Chapel Hill.

He has been active in computer graphics since the early 1970s, with rendering algorithms (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 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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 ACM-SIGGRAPH Achievement Award, the 1992 Academic Award of the National Computer Graphics Association, and the 1997 Satava Award of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference.

Current Research

Office of the Future

Wide Area Visuals with Projectors

3D Telepresence for Medical Consultation

Ultrasound/Medical Augmented Reality Research

Past Research

High-Performance Graphics Architectures ( Pixel-Planes & PixelFlow )

Telecollaboration

3D Laparoscopic Visualization

Wide-Area Tracking

Image-Based Rendering

Publications 1977-2008