Talk:Johnny Lee (computer scientist)

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Johnny Lee meets the notability requirement in the following ways: ...
 * The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by their peers or successors.

In addition to his well received and cited papers, his work on the Wiimote has been widely embraced by the DIY and game communities. A web search on "johnny lee wii" yields some 350,000 articles on his research.

Lee has also presented at the highly prestigious (and invitation only) TED conference. The latter appearance alone satisfies the notability requirement. Other TED presenters include Bill Clinton, Al Gore, James Watson, Jimmy Wales, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Bono, J.J. Abrams, Stephen Hawking, David Pogue, and many other notable people.

He is also cited on the Wii Remote page as follows:

"Programmer Johnny Chung Lee has posted video demos and sample code at his website related to the use of the Wii Remote for finger tracking, low-cost multipoint interactive whiteboards, and head tracking for desktop VR displays."

Lee was awarded the highly regarded TR35 award in 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.131.254.21 (talk) 04:28, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.

Although head tracking is not new, Lee is credited for bringing the concept to the public's attention (primarily due to the free and open source nature of his software and the low cost of the wii controller). Simultaneously, the game development community is integrating this functionality into forthcoming titles.


 * The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, which has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.

Lee has been interviewed and featured in dozens of blogs, magazine, newspapers, conferences, and television programs. A web search for "Johnny Lee interview wii" brings up many of these (approx. 100,000 links).

$20 steadycam
Johnny Chung Lee developed and web-publicized the most widely adopted do-it-yourself video camera stabilizer. (http://steadycam.org). In video circles, he's more widely known for this than for his other achievements. His steadycam website is included in the article, but no mention is made of the stabilizer itself. Also, that website has images that I am confident he would release to Wikipedia (his article currently has no pictures.)Jim Stinson (talk) 22:25, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

but he works at Google
I rewrote this article a tad: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wii_Remote&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=834346304&oldid=831168332 Basically
 * he first earned his B.Sc.,
 * then posted his work related to the Wii Remote, the main reasons being its hardware capabilities at a very low price.
 * then was hired by Microsoft to work on Kinect
 * then he was at TED
 * only after all of that, was he hired by Google User:ScotXW t@lk 07:17, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * According to his website: http://www.johnnylee.net/academic/ he is a "researcher" at Microsoft - Applied Sciences
 * I removed the reference: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_584089.html it's now a dead link User:ScotXW t@lk 07:34, 5 April 2018 (UTC)