Henry Fuchs

Henry Fuchs (born 20 January 1948) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in 3D computer graphics. He is best known for leading the Pixel-Planes and PixelFlow parallel rendering architectures, which influenced the evolution of later graphics processing units (GPUs) and anticipated features such as per-pixel processing and interactive programmable shading. He is also known for co-developing Binary Space Partitioning (BSP) trees and his significant contributions to virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR),telepresence/tele-immersion, and their medical applications. He is the Federico Gil Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where he also serves as an adjunct professor in biomedical engineering. Fuchs is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a fellow of European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics). His contributions have been recognized with numerous awards including the ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award, the IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award; he was also inducted into the inaugural [https://www.siggraph.org/awards/acm-siggraph-academy/ ACM SIGGRAPH Academy] (2018), received an honorary doctorate from TU Wien (2018), and was named a Eurographics Fellow (2020). Fuchs has previously served as the technical program chairman for ACM SIGGRAPH, an associate editor and guest editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics (ToG), the Awards Chair for IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC), a member of the advisory committees for National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Research Council (NRC), a member of the steering committee for IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Realities (ISMAR). Provided by Wikipedia