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Their objectives are modest but crucial. "We just want to take some of the blindness out of blind dates," explains the founder of Operation Match. After all, boy-meets-girl is a universal game, not to say necessity. But which boy and which girl? Operation Match, devised by two Harvard...
Computers have been used infrequently in the past to pair up dates for specific dances. But Match's punch-card cupid has far larger horizons, deals in wide areas and adapts to any occasion. Founders Vaughn Morrill and Jeff Tarr launched their enterprise last February on a shoestring budget...
Short Circuits. Apparently many young people were groping for just such a helping hand. Within three months, 7,800 students from 100 New England colleges had paid the $3 fee, had their qualifications punched onto cards and scanned by Operation Match's computer. Encouraged and figuring that what was...
Zachary said the computer's "logical construction" makes it possible to run as many as four experiments on it simultaneously
"We are trying to develop a program that will protect each experimenter from the other's mistakes," he said. "In the past one man could disrupt the computer's memory banks and ruin two or three other experiments."