Newton Lee

Newton Lee
Institutions	Bell Laboratories The Walt Disney Company Institute for Defense Analyses
Alma mater	Virginia Tech, Vincennes University

Newton Lee is the co-author of Disney Stories: Getting to Digital (Springer 2012)^[1] which Alan Kay describes as "an affectionate portrait of how 'the mouse' learned to use the mouse."^[2]

Lee is the founding president of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS)^[3][4] dedicated to improving society by providing resources to high achieving students, scientific researchers, nonprofits, and educational organizations. He is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Computers in Entertainment (CIE) magazine,^[5][6] a nonprofit educational publication to promote research and development in all aspects of entertainment technology. Published by the Association for Computing Machinery, the online magazine has garnered the support of more than 100 leading professionals and scholars representing major universities, Hollywood studios, and Fortune 500 companies. Many of whom have won the Academy Awards, Emmys, and Grammys.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Previously, Lee was the founding director of the NUS Hollywood Lab,^[13] a computer science and artificial intelligence researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories,^[14] a senior producer and lead engineer of online games at The Walt Disney Company,^[15] and an intern and a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses conducting Ada research for the United States Department of Defense and counterterrorism research for the National Security Agency and the FBI.

Currently, Lee serves on various advisory boards at The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles, Digital Hollywood,^[16] UCLA, USC,^[17] Virginia Tech,^[18] and other educational organizations worldwide.^[19][20][21] He has been honored with a Leading Edge Technology Award from Michigan, two community development awards from the California Junior Chamber of Commerce, and four volunteer project leadership awards from The Walt Disney Company.

Lee graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science, and he earned a perfect GPA from Vincennes University with an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Computer Science. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife.

Footnotes

1. ^ "Disney Stories: Getting to Digital (Springer 2012), ISBN 978-1-4614-2100-9". http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1461421004/newtonlee-20/. 
2. ^ "Reviews of Disney Stories: Getting to Digital (Springer 2012), ISBN 978-1-4614-2100-9". http://www.springer.com/computer/media+design/book/978-1-4614-2100-9?detailsPage=reviews. 
3. ^ "Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS)". http://www.ifers.org. 
4. ^ "Quincy Jones spoke at the AFI on behalf of ACM CIE and IFERS (November 4, 2006)". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijik7oSgJNY. 
5. ^ "ACM Computers in Entertainment (CIE)". Association for Computing Machinery. http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie.html. 
6. ^ "ACM Press Release (December 8, 2003)". http://www.acm.org/announcements/cie.12-5-03.html. 
7. ^ "Quincy Jones". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones. 
8. ^ "Interview with Quincy Jones". http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=973801.973815. 
9. ^ "George Lucas". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_lucas. 
10. ^ "Interview with George Lucas". http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1236224.1236228. 
11. ^ "Richard Edlund". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edlund. 
12. ^ "Interview with Richard Edlund". http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1008213.1008230. 
13. ^ "NUS Hollywood Lab". http://www.hollywood.nus.edu.sg/. 
14. ^ "DM2: an algorithm for diagnostic reasoning that combines analytical models and experiential knowledge (AT&T Bell Labs)". http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WGS-4T6NPWF-6&_user=10&_coverDate=06%2F30%2F1988&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1672251982&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=57bd60a6937cf1f69685866923dad21b&searchtype=a. 
15. ^ Disney Consumer Products News (Summer 1998) p. 35
16. ^ "Digital Hollywood University Project Board of Advisors". http://www.digitalhollywood.com/UniversityProject06Spring.html. 
17. ^ "USC IMSC eNews (August 2003)". http://imscwww.usc.edu/e-news/e-news_03_08.html. 
18. ^ "Virginia Tech Computer Science Department Advisory Board". http://www.cs.vt.edu/advisory-board-lee-newton. 
19. ^ "Woodbury University Adjunct Faculty". http://www.woodbury.edu/s/131/index.aspx?pgid=1403. 
20. ^ "International Commission on Workforce Development Council of Experts". http://www.icwfd.org/ExpertsList.html. 
21. ^ "Billion Minds Foundation Associate". http://www.billionmindsfoundation.org/who-we-are.php?page=8. 

External links

• Newton Lee
• Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS)

look up newton-lee elem. school.

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