His current research focus is on evolutionary computation, mainly as applied to games and bioinformatics. Dr. Sipper has published over 120 scientific papers, and is the author of two books: "Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing," and "Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines: The Cellular Programming Approach." Dr. Sipper and his students won two Human-Competitive Awards ("Humies") — A Silver Award in 2007 and a Bronze Award in 2005 — for their work on attaining human-competitive game playing with genetic programming. Dr. Sipper is the recipient of the 1999 University Latsis Prize.