 In 1994 he became an associate professor and in 1998 he became a full professor.His work has continued to focus on cluster computers, parallel programming languages, and parallel applications.Together with one of his students, John Romein, he solved the game of awari, a 3500-year-old game by cleverly enumerating all the possible positions reachable from the current position and choosing the best move, usually leading to a forced win.