Arthur Richard Newton (Melbourne, Australia, 1 July 1951 – 2 January 2007) was the dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

[citation needed] Berkeley awarded Newton a PhD in 1978 and, unusually, an Engineering Faculty position as well.

Robert Birgeneau, Berkeley's Chancellor, described him as, "Dynamic and entrepreneurial, he understood the power of engineering and technology in entirely new ways, and he connected them to addressing society's toughest problems.

[2][3][4] In February 2007, Berkeley established the Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professorship in his honor, funded by the EDA Consortium and other friends, colleagues and corporate partners.

[5] In July 2007, Microsoft announced an academic award program for new, innovative applications of information technology in the spirit of Newton's longtime ideal.