 He received a teaching fellowship during 1984–1986, under the direction of Stuart Reges, to create a course called "CS1E", as a peer-teaching introduction to using the Internet, informally called "PCs for Poets".It has since grown to become the popular Residential Computing program on campus.Nathan collaborated with Robby Garner and the Italian researcher Luigi Caputo, President of Alma Research Centre, on one of the first web chatterbots, named "Barry DeFacto", in 1995.