Newton Lee
American computer scientist
Topics: learning, creativity, security, artificial intelligence
Sometimes the answers are hiding in plain sight. A eureka moment came to Archimedes when he connected the dots between the ordinary routine of taking a bath and the scientific pursuit of determining the volume of an irregularly shaped object.
— Newton LeeStolen digital certificates and DNS poisoning make a lethal cocktail.
— Newton LeeNeither Sherlock Holmes nor James Bond can stop data breaches without the cooperation and vigilance of organizations and individuals in cyberspace.
— Newton LeeWhile information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.
— Newton LeeScientists are some of the most patient people in history. They can set up laboratory experiments that last for months, years, decades, and centuries.
— Newton LeeUniversities are good at producing engineers, doctors, lawyers, and such, but they often gloss over difficult moral and philosophical subjects such as the meaning of life, love, prejudice, war, and peace.
— Newton LeeDeadly weapons as big as a missile-equipped drone and as small as a .50-caliber bullet are now under software control, which could be disastrous if they were hacked.
— Newton LeeIn the digital world, delete does not always delete.
— Newton LeeNature shows us its artistic beauty that sciences explain the hows and religions contemplate the whys.
— Newton LeeGiven that the first manned Moon landing only had a 50 % chance of landing safely on the moon’s surface, it was an exemplary faith in technology and human spirit.
— Newton LeeA few musical notes can morph into countless new songs, and a small set of vocabulary can create a congeries of poems. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
— Newton LeePeople are afraid of AI partly because we see ourselves as imperfect and dangerous. Hence, our creation of AI can also be imperfect and dangerous.
— Newton LeeThe most meaningful toys are not materialistic at all. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died penniless, but his toys were his symphonies, concertos, operas, quartets, and sonatas that have delighted millions of people for hundreds of years and will continue to light up the world.
— Newton LeeWith quantum computing, scientists are learning how to better formulate questions, lest we end up with a perplexing answer like “42.
— Newton LeeThough not as terrifying as weapons of mass destruction, cyberattacks are powerful weapons of mass disruption that can endanger human lives.
— Newton LeeTo err is human. Yet it is a sign of how far computer science has come that to err is also artificially intelligent
— Newton LeeEveryone has talent. The question is how do we find it, and how do we nurture it?
— Newton LeeComputers and music are converging in a new era of digital Renaissance as more and more musicians such as will.i.am are learning how to code while an increasing number of software programmers are learning how to play music.
— Newton LeeAI is already embedded in our daily life. There are more AI applications than people realize. I think of AI as "augmented intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence".
— Newton LeeThe mysterious universe cannot be explained from one angle alone; instead it requires multiple paradigms including Newtonian physics, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics.
— Newton Lee