Newton Lee is CEO of Newton Lee Laboratories LLC, president of the Institute for Education, Research and Scholarships, adjunct professor at Woodbury University's School of Media, Culture & Design and editor-in-chief of ACM Computers in Entertainment. Previously, he was a computer scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, senior producer and engineer at The Walt Disney Company, and research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. 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 is the co-author of Disney Stories: Getting to Digital; author of the Total Information Awareness book series including Facebook Nation and Counterterrorism and Cyber security; coauthor/editor of the Digital Da Vinci book series including Computers in Music and Computers in the Arts and Sciences and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games.
The second edition of this book ... presents a comprehensive account of past and current initiatives in the field of total information awareness, examining history, strategies, and technologies with a thought-provoking approach that will appeal to both technical and nontechnical readers. ... This is a very rich, accurate, and well-documented book, full of references to press sources, which can help in getting a sense of how many initiatives, concerns, and approaches exist in the field of counterterrorism and cybersecurity. (Alessandro Berni, Computing Reviews, October, 2015)