Henry Fuchs

This article is about the computer scientist Henry Fuchs. For the football player, see Henri Fuchs .

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Henry Fuchs (born January 20, 1948 in Tokaj , Hungary ) is an American computer scientist with Hungarian roots and since 1983 the Federico Gil Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , as well as Adjunct Professor for Biomedical Engineering. Together with Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and Markus Gross , he also heads the “BeingThere” International Research Center for Tele-Presence and Tele-Cooperation at NTU Singapore . His field of work is computer graphics , in particular the areas of virtual reality , telepresence , medical image processing, computer vision and robotics .

Life

Henry Fuchs left Hungary with his family during the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and immigrated to the USA in 1957 . He studied computer science and computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz , and earned a PhD from the University of Utah in 1975 . He has been at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1978 , where he became one of the world's most famous researchers in the field of virtual environments and telepresence .

Awards and honors

• Member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• 1992 ACM- SIGGRAPH Achievement Award
• 1992 Academic Award of the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA)
• 1997 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1997 Satava Award of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conferences (MMVR)
• 2013 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Career Award
• 2015 Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics
• 2018 honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology

Web links

• Henry Fuchs Homepage in the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

credentials

1. ↑ Short biography at UNC Chapel Hill
2. ↑ Honorary doctorates from the Vienna University of Technology ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.