Henry Fuchs is a pioneer in the development of virtual reality. He has worked with 3D biomedical imaging and graphics since 1969 and with head-mounted displays since 1970. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1978. At present, he is predominantly involved in the field of virtual reality in medicine through his work in ultrasound-guided, head-mounted displays, and in telecollaboration as part of the National Tele- immersion Initiative.

Professor Fuchs is one of the inventors of the Pixel-Planes high-performance graphics engine, several of which, in their day, were judged as the world's fastest graphics computers, and he has been a principal investigator for its successors, PixelFlow and ImageFlow. He has more than one hundred publications resulting from his research in computer graphics, particularly interactive, three-dimensional computer graphics.

Professor Fuchs has been a member of the National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board since 1993. He was the co-director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 3D Imaging in Medicine (1990), and co-chair of the National Science Foundation Workshop on Research Directions in Virtual Environments (1992). He has served on industrial advisory boards for many years.

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