“Your business is our pleasure. Your pleasure is our business.” This was the slogan hung outside a Harvard dorm room in 1965, marking the headquarters of the first computer matchmaking service in the ...
Long before Hinge or Tinder, early computing took finding your perfect match to a new level. Associate Professor of Data Science Mar Hicks, and author of "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order ...
Sweden's moves toward a cashless economy may offer lessons for what the U.S. will deal with in the future. But now let's take a trip into the past. With Valentine's Day around the corner, we dug into ...
Looking for love is an art, not a science. And yet, people have been trying to crack the code for such a long time, whether through matchmakers or speed dating or, these days, AI. Back in the 1960s, a ...
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Back in the early '60s a computer dating service decided these two people were compatible. That calculation was right. John and Carol Matlock will... Computer Love: Their 1960s-Era Dating Strategy?
Back in the 1960s, a couple of Harvard students had an idea. From Radio Diaries, this is a look back at the creation of the very first computerized dating service. Looking for love is an art, not a ...