Henry Fuchs 

 

Federico Gil Distinguished 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

Department of Computer Science
216 Fred Brooks Building, 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 Distinguished 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 CV

 

Current Research

BeingThere International Research Centre for Telepresence and Telecollaboration (with NTU Singapore and ETH Zurich)

BeingThere International Research Centre for Telepresence and Telecollaboration Press Release

Office of the Future

Wide Area Visuals with Projectors

                              

Past Research

3D Telepresence for Medical Consultation

Ultrasound/Medical Augmented Reality Research

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

Telecollaboration

3D Laparoscopic Visualization

Wide-Area Tracking

Image-Based Rendering

 

 

Publications 1977-2011 

Office of the Future publications list

 

Recent Teaching

Comp 060 (Spring 2010) Freshman Seminar: Robotics with Legos

Comp 590 (Fall 2008) Introduction to Robotics

Comp 060 (Spring 2008) Freshman Seminar: Robotics with Legos

Comp 872 (Fall 2007) Exploring Virtual Worlds

Comp 060, old 006 (Spring 2007) Freshman Seminar: Robotics with Legos

Comp 239 (Fall 2006) Exploring Virtual Worlds

Comp 006 (Spring 2006)  Freshman Seminar: Robotics with Legos

 

Other Interests

Book in progress (manuscript available in very limited numbers):
Fragments of a Family: a Multigenerational Memoir on Hungary, the Holocaust, and Emigration to a New World     by Marta Fuchs Winik, with Henry Fuchs

 

Panorama of my neighborhood in Zurich, Switzerland, where I spent a recent sabbatical (at ETH)