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Operation Match was a computer dating service created in 1965 by three Harvard undergraduates and Douglas H. Ginsburg, a Cornell dropout who later became a Supreme Court nominee.[1] It was among the first ever computer matchmakers in the US, and was inspired by Joan Ball's St. James Computer Dating Service (later Com-Pat) which started in London in 1964.[2] The idea was formed during an evening conversation at Winthrop House in December 1964 which focused on "the irrationality of two particular social evils: the blind date and the mixer", as The Harvard Crimson described it in 1965. After the discussion, students Vaugh Morrill and Jeffrey Tarr contacted lawyers and computer technicians for confirmation their plan was feasible and drafted a questionnaire in about two weeks with assistance from the Social Relations department and their new collaborator Doug Ginsburg. By February 1965 they advertised the computerized date-making service, which planned to pair Ivy League men with women fro

Operation Match - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia First computer dating service in the United States Operation Match questionnaire Operation Match was a computer dating service created in 1965 by three Harvard undergraduates and Douglas H. Ginsburg , a Cornell dropout who later became a Supreme Court nominee. [ 1 ] It was among the first ever computer matchmakers in the US, and was inspired by Joan Ball 's St. James Computer Dating Service (later Com-Pat) which started in London in 1964. [ 2 ] Origin and development [ edit ] The idea was formed d

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