Newton Lee is a computer scientist who is an author and administrator in the field of education and technology commercialization.
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. He was the founding president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association.
Lee is adjunct professor of Media Technology at Woodbury University School of Media, Culture & Design. Previously, he was senior producer and lead engineer at The Walt Disney Company, research scientist at VTLS where he created the world's first annotated multimedia OPAC for the U.S. National Agricultural Library, computer science and artificial intelligence researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he created Bell Labs' first-ever commercial AI tool, and research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses conducting military-standard Ada research for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
Lee is the founding editor-in-chief of the nonprofit ACM Computers in Entertainment magazine published by the Association for Computing Machinery for which he has interviewed Who's Who including Roy E. Disney,Quincy Jones, and George Lucas.