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Newton Lee
Founding Director of NUS Hollywood Lab
Founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Computers in Entertainment
Founding CEO of Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships
Former Disney Producer/Engineer
Former Bell Labs Researcher
Newton Lee is the founding director of the NUS (National
University of Singapore) Hollywood Lab for interactive and digital media
research and technology commercialization, with Dr. Alan Kay, Dr. Danny Hillis,
and Mr. Bran Ferren as the advisors.
He is the founding editor-in-chief of the ACM (Association
for Computing Machinery) Computers in Entertainment magazine - a nonprofit
educational publication since 2003 to promote research and development in all
aspects of entertainment technology.
He is also the founding CEO of the nonprofit Institute for
Education, Research, and Scholarships with educational and research focus on
entertainment technology, renewable energy, and human aging research.
While at Disney between 1996 and 2006, Lee founded the
Disney Online Technology Forums and developed over 100 games and activities on
award-winning web sites Disney.com and Disney's Blast, as well as enhanced-TV
programs for ABC's "Summer Jam Concert" and Disney Channel's "In
Concert."
In 1993, Lee developed an object-oriented scripting
language and cross-platform compiler for interactive CD-ROMs including the
beloved titles "The Lion King Animated Storybook," "Winnie the
Pooh and the Honey Tree," "101 Dalmatians," "Lamp Chop
Loves Music," "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," "Haunted House,"
"George Shrinks," and "Barbie as Rapunzel." He and his
colleagues received the Michigan's
Leading Edge Technologies Award for their invention.
Lee has served as a juror for the 2003 Emmy Awards for
Advanced Media Technology. He has won two community development awards from the
California Junior Chamber of Commerce, and four Disney VoluntEARS project
leader awards. He has published two novels, a book chapter in "Machine
Learning and Uncertain Reasoning" (Academic Press 1990), and dozens of
research papers on software applications in medical science, national security,
quality control, telecommunication, library science, and new media. He has
refereed for the International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, IEEE Expert, and
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. He has given invited talks
at M.I.T., AT&T, the MITRE Corp., and international conferences.
Lee holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from
Virginia Tech, an electrical engineering degree and honorary doctorate from Vincennes University. He currently serves on
various advisory boards at the Art Institute of California, Digital Hollywood,
UCLA, USC, and Virginia Tech. |
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