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  title info:
    title: Operation match
    sub title: Jeff Tarr and the invention of computer dating
  name:
    name part: Tarr, Patricia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 142 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The improbable and untold story of the college student who invented the world's first computer dating service. In the fall of 1962, Jeff Tarr, a teenager from a small town in Maine, began his freshman year at Harvard University. By the time he graduated, he had developed and launched the first-ever computer dating service, upending courting rituals at colleges across the United States and becoming a minor celebrity in his own right. Tarr's innovation arrived in a nation whose campuses were still in step with 1950s notions of morality, propriety and tradition. Many northeastern college dormitories were still segregated by sex, and bars weren't a place for singles to meet and mingle. In just a few semesters, Tarr brought computer algorithms to the people, propelling America's youngest adults headlong into the swinging '60s. As the sexual revolution and women's rights movement gained steam, and as civil rights victories mounted and the Vietnam War dragged on, Tarr's new vision for how young men and women should pair off rode a surging wave of cultural change. As the sexual revolution and women's rights movement gained steam, and as civil rights victories mounted and the Vietnam War dragged on, Tarr's new vision for how young men and women should pair off rode a surging wave of cultural change. Operation Match follows Tarr's adventure from the dateless Saturday night where a little beer and banter with his roommate sparked an idea, through the process of perfecting a dating questionnaire, to late nights feeding thousands of punch cards into a rented IBM mainframe, to matching tens of thousands of young men and women, for better or for worse. It also traces his transformation from an anonymous, awkward, Kennedy-loving college man to a voice of the New Frontier, appearing on the Today Show and the Tonight Show and, of course, having more dates than he could ever have dreamed of.
  table of contents: Boy/Girl/Computer -- Don't you want somebody to love? -- Let 1401 count the ways -- The questionnaire -- The Ivies and the Seven Sisters -- The results -- The college boom -- Changing culture, changing campus -- You don't own me -- Success story -- Protest on campus -- Signs of the times -- Miss match -- Operation Match becomes a household name -- A computer-assisted rendezvous at Grossinger's -- Perfect matches -- Cupid's legacy.
  note: by Patsy Tarr.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Dating (Social customs)
    topic: Computer network resources
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Dating (Social customs)
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: College students
    geographic: United States
    topic: Conduct of life
  subject:
    topic: Computers and college students
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Questionnaires
    geographic: United States
    topic: Data processing
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tarr, Jeff
  classification: HQ801.82 .T37 2024
  classification: 306.731
  identifier: 9780972388627
  identifier: 0972388621
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240611
    record change date: 20241018154604.2
    record identifier: in00005506586