My research interests are in the areas of high performance embedded systems, high performance microprocessors, and robotics. More recently my research projects have targeted robotics, machine vision, and natural language processing.


    The Aithon Board: A Case Study in Commercialization of a Student Project, Connor Citron, Brian Gomberg, and John Seng, In Computer Science in the Colleges, Southwestern Regional Conference, March, 2014

    Retrospective on "Power-Sensitive Multithreaded Architecture", John Seng, Dean Tullsen, George Cai, In the 2012 International Conference on Computer Design, October, 2012, Original paper was selected as 1 of 5 papers for High-Impact Paper Award out of 30 years of ICCD proceedings

    Hisham Assal, Franz J. Kurfess, Kym Pohl, Emily Schwarz, and John Seng, Enhancing Information Extraction with Context and Inference - The ODIX Platform; Ontology-Driven Web Mining - Concepts 
and Techniques (Hector Oscar Nigro and Sandra Gonzalez Císaro, eds.), IGI Global, 2012.

    Semantically Enhanced Information Extraction, Hisham Assal, John Seng, Franz Kurfess, Emily Schwarz, Kym Pohl, In the 2011 IEEE Aerospace Conference, March, 2011

    Partnering Enhanced-NLP with Semantic Analysis In Support of Information Extraction, Hisham Assal, John Seng, Franz Kurfess, Emily Schwarz, Kym Pohl, In the 2nd International Workshop on Ontology-Driven Software Engineering, October, 2010

    Robotics Competition: Providing Structure, Flexibility, and an Extensive Learning Experience, Joseph Grimes and John Seng, In IEEE Frontiers of Education Conference, October, 2008

    Sidewalk Following Using Color Histograms, John S. Seng and Thomas J. Norrie, In Computer Science in the Colleges Southern Region Conference, April, 2008

    Team-Based Project Design of an Autonomous Robot, Thomas J. Norrie and John S. Seng, In The 2007 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, June, 2007

    PolyBot Board: a Controller Board for Robotics Applications and Education, John Seng, In The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, June, 2006

    Experiences with the Blackfin Architecture for Embedded Systems Education, Diana Franklin, John Seng, In the Twelfth Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, June, 2005

    Improving Non-Stationary Data Retrieval in Wireless Sensor Networks, Andrew LeBeau, Justin Fields, Ryan Lavering, Diana Franklin, John Seng, To appear in Second International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Ad Hoc Networking, June, 2005

    Architecture-Level Power Optimizations -- What are the Limits?, John Seng, Dean Tullsen, In Journal of Instruction Level Parallelism, volume 7, 2005

    Exploring Perceptron-Based Register Value Prediction, John Seng, Greg Hamerly, In Second Value Prediction and Value-Based Optimization Workshop 2004, October, 2004

    Exploring the Potential of Architecture-Level Power Optimizations, John S. Seng, Dean M. Tullsen, In Power-Aware Computing Systems 2003, December, 2003

    The Effect of Compiler Optimizations on Pentium 4 Power Consumption, John S. Seng, Dean M. Tullsen, In the 7th Annual Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures, February, 2003

    Reducing Power with Dynamic Critical Path Information, John S. Seng, Eric S. Tune,  Dean M. Tullsen, In 34th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, December, 2001 (see abstract).

    Power-Sensitive Multithreaded Architecture, John S. Seng, Dean M. Tullsen, George Z.N. Cai, In International Conference on Computer Design 2000, September, 2000 (see abstract)

    Storageless Value Prediction Using Prior Register Values, Dean M. Tullsen, John S. Seng, In 26th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, May, 1999.