Title :
Stanford, the IBM 650, and the First Trials of Computer Date Matching
Author :
Gillmor, C. Stewart
Author_Institution :
Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT
Abstract :
In 1959, two Stanford undergraduate electrical engineering students enrolled in Math 139, theory and operation of computing machines, and as a final class project, devised the "Happy Families Planning Service". They used the IBM model 650 computer, pairing up 49 men and 49 women, for the first known computer-date-matched party
Keywords :
computer science education; educational computing; educational courses; Happy Families Planning Service project; IBM model 650 computer; Math 139 course; Stanford undergraduate electrical engineering students; computer-date-matched party; Analog computers; Circuit analysis computing; Computer science; Contracts; Education; Electrical engineering; Mathematics; Numerical analysis; Statistics; Time sharing computer systems; IBM 650; Stanford; computer date matching; history; humor; student life;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2007.13
