web design and game development for the 2015 documentary film Finding Noah: The Search for Noah's Ark. 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. 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. Politics Lee is the chairman of the California Transhumanist Party and the Education and Media Advisor for the United States Transhumanist Party. Previously, he was a campaign advisor to Zoltan Istvan for the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Philanthropy Lee is the founding president of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS) acknowledged by Alan Kay and Quincy Jones at the American Film Institute on November 4, 2006 during the Computers in Entertainment awards ceremony as well as by Senator Richard D. Roth of the California State Senate on March 14, 2016 in support of Type 1 diabetes awareness and research. On Earth Day on April 22, 2018, Lee was a member of the IFERS-sponsored 2018 Earth Day Peace Conference and Movie Screening. Advisory boards Lee has served on the advisory boards at Virginia Tech, University of Southern California, National University of Singapore, Murdoch University, Digital Hollywood, and the High School Music Company. References External links Newton Lee Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS) California Transhumanist Party ACM Computers in Entertainment American transhumanists Living people American computer scientists American online publication editors Virginia Tech alumni Vincennes University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)