 That work received an Apple Design Award in 2004, was cited as a source for the United Nations "UNCTAD Information Economy Report" in 2005, and spun off as an open source project called OpenSIMS.During his period at Symbiot, Nathan helped pioneer a controversial "hands on" college program in network security at Austin Community College, for which he received a NISOD Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003.Some of the technology at Symbiot emerged from an earlier project created by Nathan, called "The Ceteri Institute", which used complex systems modeling to analyze aspects of multinational corporations.