[sprainedankles]

> The four of us made a dating program where you would input men and women and their traits, and then generate a good matching between them with an algorithm of our own invention.

Could this be the very first "dating app"?! Amazing.

[bklaasen]

Nope! This is an area where software, society and gender overlap, so it's been getting a fair bit of attention, most notably by Professor Marie Hicks: https://adanewmedia.org/2016/10/issue10-hicks/

[jibal]

"Could this be the very first "dating app"?!"

Not likely ... this was a common idea among young programmers, and there were several such programs floating around the UCLA Computer Club when I was there in the 60's.

[bitwave]

Stable matching?

[vasili111]

Any real evidence that dating software was working correctly?