SWM'S AND IBM'S: COMPUTER DATING AT 20
As I was leaving a diner the other day, I noticed, atop the cigarette machine by the door, a cardboard display of brochures from a computer dating service. What made me look again was a white sticker affixed to the display: "Our 20th year. " Could it be that computer dating is 20 years old?I started thinking back to my first and only experience with this merry mode of matchmaking. Yes, it would have been just 20 years ago. I was in college, and similar displays began...
Computer Dating: NOMINEE FOUNDED DATING SERVICE
WASHINGTON -- It is clearly the most unusual entry on the resume of Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, President Reagan's nominee for the Supreme Court.Ginsburg left college for more than a year in the mid-1960s and founded a nationwide computer-dating service known as Operation Match, a spokesman said. For a fee, the company arranged blind dates through the use of computerized data gathered from questionnaires. The spokesman, W. Stephen Cannon, said the company, which the judge...
COMPUTER DATING: MONEY PEOPLE, MEET IDEA PEOPLE
Every day in Hampton Roads, somebody's good idea for a product or service dies for a lack of cash. It's unfortunate. People with the best notions often don't have the moolah to make them reality.What these people need are angels, investors willing to back their projects financially. They're out there, these risk capitalists. ``There are easily a thousand individuals who are putting over $10,000 a year into businesses in Hampton Roads each...
COMPUTER DATING SERVICE ADDS ROMANCE TO LIVES OF DISABLED
A song once suggested the world needs "love, sweet love" and, as if taking the message to heart, a new computer dating service has been designed to help the disabled find romance.The service, Handicap Introductions, or "HI," apparently is the first of its kind to serve the nation's 21.8 million disabled people, said Don Gibbons, a psychology professor at Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales and founder of the service....
Computer Dating: COMPUTER CUPID STUNG BY SAN JUAN SCHOOL FUND-RAISER BYPASSED RULES
A computer dating service has been halted temporarily at several Sacramento high schools because backers did not register the project with the San Juan Unified School District. The owners of Cupid's Choice, the computer dating venture, will meet Monday afternoon with district spokesman Vic Krohn in an effort to resolve the issue.Fund-raising activities are supposed to register first with the district, Krohn said Friday. They didn't do that. We'll go back...