Newton Lee

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Newton Lee
Newton-Lee.jpg
Born British Hong Kong
Nationality United States
Fields Computer Science
Information Technology
Institutions Bell Laboratories
Institute for Defense Analyses
National University of Singapore
VTLS
The Walt Disney Company
Woodbury University
Alma mater Virginia Tech
Vincennes University
Website
www.newtonlee.com

Newton Lee is a computer scientist who is an author and administrator in the field of education and technology commercialization.[1]

Education

Newton Lee holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Virginia Tech, and an electrical engineering degree and honorary doctorate from Vincennes University.[2]

Career

Newton Lee is adjunct professor of Media Technology at Woodbury University School of Media, Culture & Design.,[3] CEO of Newton Lee Laboratories LLC,[4] and CTO of International Digital Media Lab.[5] Previously, he was CEO of Hollywood Lab (cofounded with Adrian David Cheok) and director of internship at the National University of Singapore,[6] senior producer and lead engineer at The Walt Disney Company,[7] research scientist at VTLS where he created the world's first annotated multimedia OPAC for the U.S. National Agricultural Library,[8] computer science and artificial intelligence researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he created Bell Labs' first-ever commercial AI tool,[9] and research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses conducting military-standard Ada research for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)[10] and AI research for a multi-agency counterterrorism project involving the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[11]

Philanthropy

Newton Lee is the founding president of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS).[12][13] He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the nonprofit Computers in Entertainment (CIE) magazine[14] published by the Association for Computing Machinery.[15] He has interviewed Who's Who including Roy E. Disney.[16] Quincy Jones,[17] and George Lucas.[18] Previously, he was the founding president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association,[19] and pro bono web design/game development supervisor for Finding Noah: The Search for Noah's Ark.[20]

Politics

Newton Lee is a campaign adviser to Zoltan Istvan of the Transhumanist Party for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[21]

Awards and honors

Newton Lee was a juror for the first-ever 2003 Advanced Media Technology Emmy Awards. He has been honored with a Michigan Leading Edge Technologies Award, two community development awards from the California Junior Chamber of Commerce, and four volunteer project leadership awards from The Walt Disney Company.[7]

Books

Newton Lee is an author as well as an editor and a curator of SpringerBriefs in Computer Science[22] and Springer International Series on Computer Entertainment and Media Technology.[23]

Digital Da Vinci Series

Year Title Author(s) ISBN
2014 Digital Da Vinci: Computers in the Arts and Sciences[24] Newton Lee with Dennis Anderson, Keith Armstrong, Stephen Barrass, Nathan Cohen, Ben Cowley, Roman Danylak, Raffaella Folgieri, Marco Granato, Daniele Grechi, Claudio Lucchiari, Robert Niewiadomski, Mine Özkar, Gavin Sade, Diomidis Spinellis, and Mari Velonaki ISBN 978-1-4939-0964-3
2014 Digital Da Vinci: Computers in Music[25] Newton Lee with Stephen Barrass, Tim Barrass, Juan Pablo Bello, Mattia G. Bergomi, Simone Castellani, Kai Ton Chau, Elaine Chew, Shlomo Dubnov, Alexandre R. J. Francois, M. Nyssim Lefford, Anton Nijholt, Mustafa Radha, Dennis Reidsma, Isaac Schankler, and Greg Surges ISBN 978-1-4939-0535-5

Getting to Digital Series

Year Title Author(s) ISBN
2012 Disney Stories: Getting to Digital[7] Newton Lee and Krystina Madej ISBN 978-1-4614-2100-9

Total Information Awareness Series

Year Title Author(s) ISBN
2015 Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (Second Edition)[11] Newton Lee with Ray Balut, Darren Manners, Andy Marken, Emily Peed, Philip Polstra, and Jean C. Stanford ISBN 978-3-319-17243-9
2014 Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (Second Edition)[26] Newton Lee with Alex Houg, Emily Temple-Wood, and Dennis Yu ISBN 978-1-4939-1739-6
2013 Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness[27] Newton Lee ISBN 978-1-4614-7204-9
2013 Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness[28] Newton Lee ISBN 978-1-4614-5307-9

SpringerBriefs in Computer Science

Year Title Author(s) ISBN
2015 A Survey of Characteristic Engine Features for Technology-Sustained Pervasive Games[29] Kim J.L. Nevelsteen ISBN 978-3319176314

Springer International Series on Computer Entertainment and Media Technology

Year Title Author(s) ISBN
2016 Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media[30] Krystina Madej ISBN 978-3319259529
2016 Big Data Applications and Use Cases[31] Patrick C. K. Hung ISBN 978-3319301440
2015 Mobile Services for Toy Computing[32] Patrick C. K. Hung ISBN 978-3319213224
2015 Transforming Learning and IT Management through Gamification (International Series on Computer Entertainment and Media Technology)[33] Edmond C. Prakash and Madhusudan Rao ISBN 978-3319186986

Games

Newton Lee created a scripting language and a cross-platform compiler for CD-ROM storybook and games, including Disney's Animated Storybooks featured in the Billboard Magazine.[34][35] He co-developed over 100 online children games at Disney Online as well as 12 best-selling and award-winning interactive titles for Disney, Mattel, Philips, HarperCollins, and SegaSoft.[7]

Interactive Titles

Year Title Publisher ISBN
1994 The Lion King Disney Interactive ISBN 978-1573500005
George Shrinks HarperCollins Publishers ISBN 978-0062640062
1995 Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree Disney Interactive ISBN 978-1573503389
Pocahontas Disney Interactive ISBN 978-1573500210
Lamb Chop Loves Music Philips Media n/a
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Harper Collins Interactive ISBN 978-0062640000
Haunted House Phillips Media n/a
1996 Toy Story Disney Interactive ISBN 978-1573500630
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Disney Interactive ISBN 978-1573500623
Fractured Fairy Tales: The Frog Prince Trampoline / SegaSoft ISBN 978-1573500623
Barbie as Rapunzel Mattel Media ISBN 978-0932631121
Puzzle Castle SegaSoft n/a

Music

Newton Lee has executive produced dance-pop songs that have charted on U.S. Billboard, U.K. Music Week, and U.S. iTunes HOT 100 (Electronic) as well as appeared on American Idol and Lifetime original movie Cheyenne.[25] In the late eighties, Lee produced the first-ever "Intergalactic Music Festival" at AT&T Bell Laboratories to showcase international songs and cultural dances.[25] In 2015, he executive produced the I Am Not I album by American recording artist Liza Fox and Hungarian DJ Jus Grata to raise awareness of bipolar disorder.[36] He currently serves on the advisory board of the High School Music Company co-sponsored by Hollywood Global Change.[37]

Charting Singles

Year Single Artist(s) Chart Peak or Current Chart Position
2015 I Am Not I Liza Fox, Jus Grata U.K. Music Week Commercial Pop Chart 15
U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs Chart 41
ReverbNation EDM (U.S. and Global) 1
2014 Dynamite Liza Fox U.K. Music Week Upfront Club Chart 33
U.S. iTunes HOT 100 Weekly Chart (Electronic) 11
2013 Gimme All (Ring My Bell) Princess X U.K. Music Week Commercial Pop Chart 9
U.S. Billboard Dance/Club Play Chart 12

References

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