However, he found DoubleClick cookies installed on the test computer after visiting 22 of the top 100 websites.
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Some also expressed concern that not all students will have the necessary skills to take the exam on computer, and the new GED test won't be offered on paper.
Organizers also added an additional computer test for the semifinals, imposed time limits on computer-based spelling and vocabulary tests and added a rule that resulted in automatic elimination for any participant who misspelled a word on stage in the second or third rounds.
If they can't distinguish between the two, the computer is said to have passed the Turing test.
" But like Rothman, he said that NTG represents "what may be the stiffest test Apple Computer has faced in music.
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My test taxes the computer more than a normal user and involves keeping Wi-Fi on, cranking the screen to full brightness, turning off all power-saving features, keeping email retrieval going in the background and playing an endless loop of music.
Our correspondent added that the back-up computer on the rover had previously been used to test software updates before they were installed on the main machine.
Ellison also noted that a paper option was important because many students in adult education classes lack the skills needed to take a computer-based test and that it will take time to beef up the courses to add that training.
The site reports the test mule was made for Apple by Quanta Computer.
Using data from several African countries, they have constructed a computer model to test the idea.
Now they're using that powerful backbone to understand the demands of future computer users and test equipment for eventual commercial release.
Her review lauds the cleverness of its rhymes, then goes on to test scientific chronologies and critique computer-driven scratchboard techniques used for the book's art.
Nico, developed by computer scientists at Yale University, will take the test in the coming months.
If a test taker is continually looking away from the computer, the proctors gently remind them: "Please keep your eyes on the screen, " Mr. Morgan said.
It became clear to me in the early 1990s when for a couple of years I was a judge in the annual Loebner Prize Competition, an annual contest to find out if any computer could yet pass what is known as the Turing test: if it could fool a person into thinking it was a human.
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We can, (if you are one of the smarty-pants who understands the analytics) program a computer, an affordable computer, to test permutations and prove hypotheses that no human could ever possibly do in a lifetime.
The test subjects said they wanted to talk to their computer, but after five minutes of actually doing it, their throats were getting sore and the room, with everyone talking to their computers, was noisy and obnoxious.
And if combined with a number of palaeo-wind records gathered from around the continent, it could provide a useful tool to test climate computer models, they believe.
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The engine is mounted on a test-bed and attached to a computer-controlled dynamometer, which is used to apply an adjustable load.
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To test the system's performance at the configuration stage, the K computer's processing speed was measured by the LINPACK benchmark program, placing it on the 37th TOP500 ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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Going in, Kasparov had recognized that in a test of sheer calculating power he would lose, so he guided the computer into openings and unclear positions where intuition and strategy would decide games more than number crunching.
But then others objected that the Met Office is the official provider of World Meteorological Organisation statistics and it would be ludicrous to reject their highly sophisticated statistics smoothed by computer models just because the Met Office forecasters were amongst the contestants in the Weather Test.
At the moment, the computer built by Dr Shapiro's team only works in a watery solution inside a test tube.
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When a large Southern California water system wanted to probe the vulnerabilities of its computer networks, it hired Los Angeles-based hacker Marc Maiffret to test them.
In the case of the maths scores of fourth-graders, there was a consistently negative relationship between computer use and test scores.
In the same way that spreadsheets can instantaneously perform complex sales projections, biomedical researchers in the future will pump in the proteins and other chemicals they want to test into a microchip, and the result will be quickly spit out on a computer display.
Down the hall was the control room, with several computer screens on which Gonzaga and Setrakian and their team of researchers observe their test subjects.
The test, which he outlined in 1950, basically has humans hold conversations with another person and with a computer.
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