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 ...
In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...
On the evening of September 9, 1947, a strange silence fell over the Harvard Computation Laboratory. The Mark II electromechanical computerâ a colossal machine of whirring motors, clacking relays, and ...
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 ...