Newton Lee Last updated July 14, 2025 American computer scientist
Newton Lee is a computer scientist who is an author and administrator in the field of education and technology commercialization. He is known for his total information awareness book series. [ 2]
Career Lee is editor and curator of SpringerBriefs in Computer Science , [ 7] Springer International Series on Computer Entertainment and Media Technology , [ 8] and Springer Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. [ 9]
Previously, Lee was adjunct professor of Media Technology at Woodbury University, [ 10] senior producer and lead engineer at The Walt Disney Company , [ 11] research scientist at VTLS where he created the world's first annotated multimedia OPAC for the U.S. National Agricultural Library , [ 12] computer science and artificial intelligence researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he created Bell Labs' first-ever commercial AI tool, [ 13] and research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses conducting military-standard Ada research for the Utined States Department of Defense (DoD). [ 14]
In 2003, Lee founded the nonprofit Computers in Entertainment . It was published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [ 15] for which Lee interviewed Roy E. Disney , [ 16] Quincy Jones , [ 17] and George Lucas . [ 18] He oversaw the journal and magazine for 15 years from 2003 to 2018, which is the longest term held as editor-in-chief in the history of ACM. [ 19] [ 20]
Bibliography Academic books Digital Twin: Fundamentals and Applications (2024), with Soheil Sabri and Kostas Alexandridis, ISBN 978-3031677779 Nonprofit Digital Transformation Demystified: A Practical Guide (2023), with Ali A. Gooyabadi and Zahra GorjianKhanzad, ISBN 978-3031471810 Disney Stories: Getting to Digital , 2nd Edition (2020), with Krystina Madej, ISBN 978-3-0304-2737-5 The Transhumanism Handbook (2019), ISBN 978-3-030-16919-0 Emotion in Video Game Soundtracking (2018), with Duncan Williams, ISBN 978-3-319-72271-9 Game Dynamics: Best Practices in Procedural and Dynamic Game Content Generation (2017), with Oliver Korn, ISBN 978-3-319-53087-1 Digital Da Vinci: Computers in the Arts and Sciences (2014), ISBN 978-1-4939-0964-3 Digital Da Vinci: Computers in Music (2014), ISBN 978-1-4939-0535-5 Disney Stories: Getting to Digital (2012), with Krystina Madej, ISBN 978-1-4614-2100-9 Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness , 3rd Edition (2024), ISBN 978-3-031-63125-2 Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness , 3rd Edition (2021), ISBN 978-1-0716-1866-0 Google It: Total Information Awareness (2016), ISBN 978-1-4939-6413-0 [ 21] [ 22] Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness , 2nd Edition (2015), ISBN 978-3-319-17243-9 Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness , 2nd Edition (2014), ISBN 978-1-4939-1739-6 Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2013), ISBN 978-1-4614-7204-9 [ 23] [ 24] Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2012), ISBN 978-1-4614-5307-9 [ 25] Movies, games, and musicLee was credited as a software engineer for Disney's Animated Storybooks (1994 video game) [ 26] (featured on Billboard [ 27] ) and Pocahontas (1996 video game). [ 28]
Lee was also credited for web design and game development for the 2015 documentary film Finding Noah : The Search for Noah's Ark . [ 29]
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 . [ 30]
In 2016, he curated and released the Google It (Soundtrack) music album consisting of Roger Hodgson 's The Logical Song , Princess X 's Free , and six cover songs from the Beatles , the Eagles , R.E.M. , Pink Floyd , and Zager and Evans . [ 31]
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