Examiner Corporation

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The Examiner Corporation was founded in the mid 1980's by Dr. Stanley Trollip (formerlly of the University of Illinois Aviation Research Lab) and Gary Brown (formerlly of Control Data). Both had worked extensively on the PLATO system. The initial funding for the software was from the London Stock Exchange, which was instrumental in requesting the set of features that has remained with the product.

A Microsoft Windows version of the software was developed in the mid 1990's. Internet hosted testing was added in 2000 with the use Citrix thin client system. "Native" Internet delivery was added in 2005. Traditional paper and pencil testing has been integrated into the system since the late 1980's with direct interfaces to optical mark recognition "bubble sheet" scanners from Scantron and NCS scanners. All the products feed into a single, integrated, item analysis package built on the Microsoft Access database platform.

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