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Henry Fuchs is Federico Gil professor in the Department of Computer Science and adjunct professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Utah and joined the computer science faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1978. Dr. Fuchs is primarily involved in the field of virtual reality in medicine through his work in three-dimensional biomedical imaging, and his research in head-mounted displays. He is one of the inventors of the Pixel-Planes family of high-performance graphics engines. He has over ninety publications resulting from his research in computer graphics. Dr. Fuchs was a member of the National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board from 1993 to 1996. He was an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 1983-1988, and was the guest editor of its first issue (Jan 1982). He is currently on the editorial board of Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and the Virtual Reality Society Journal. He has served as chairman or on the committees of a number of conferences and on a number of industrial advisory boards for many years. Dr. Fuchs has received several prestigious awards, including the 1992 Computer Graphics Achievement Award from ACM/SIGGRAPH and the 1992 National Computer Graphics Association Academic Award. In 1997, he was awarded the Satava Award at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference. In 1997 he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.