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Dow ( one of the founding partners in the Dow Jones Company , Inc. ) in 1896 as a way for investors to compare the price changes of many individual industrial stocks to the course of the market as a whole . The purpose of the Pilot Program is for the founding partners — in association with the Fellows , the DOE , and the participating schools — to develop , test , refine , and evaluate the overall project to ensure the greatest contribution to the school system as well as the greatest benefit to the Fellows . The company had been using a homegrown system that one of the founding partners , who had a background in computer science , wrote 16 years ago .