Henry Fuchs

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Henry Fuchs is the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Adjunct Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of North Carolina at 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 UNC 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, and the 1992 Academic Award of the National Computer Graphics Association.