Operation match : Jeff Tarr and the invention of computer dating /

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-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tarr, Patricia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	East Hampton, New York : 2wice Books, [2024].
Subjects:	Dating (Social customs) > Computer network resources > History. Dating (Social customs) > United States > History > 20th century. College students > United States > Conduct of life. Computers and college students > United States > History. Questionnaires > United States > Data processing > History. Tarr, Jeff.

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.