Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. In this session three panelists related recent personal experiences with respect to emerging trends in hardware, software, and methodologies.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session addressed systems management and discussed these questions: 1. Why is it so difficult to forecast delivery times and resource requirements? 2. Should I build or buy? 3. What project management techniques have worked for you? 4. Why do systems development projects often go out of control? 5. What is the systems development life cycle? 6. Why does testing always prove inadequate?

Description: This discussion at the 1959 Atlanta Regional Meeting looks at technology issues inculding the feasibility of computers, the company's plan of operation, organizational changes due to computers, and personnel problems as a result of the use of computers.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, New Possibilities in Graduation by Kingsland Camp. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: Machine learning models have many practical applications in the world of insurance. These applications are well documented and most actuaries, at least at a high level, are familiar with these concepts. The presenters will take this one step further and provide an introduction to the theoretical formulas and real-world considerations that make machine learning models possible.

Description: Perhaps readers will send us additions to the following short list of events in the mathematical world associated with years ending in the digits 82. These are taken from IBM’s history chart, “Men of Modern Mathematics.”

Description: How do you go about designing a new product? Behavioral Science is an often overlooked tool in enhancing product design and using a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) can give you insights to customer preferences and their willingness to pay for features. The result of this work is a product explicitly designed with your customers and market in mind.

Description: Article that discusses Web 2.0 and associated strategies for productively using today's social media.

Description: This discussion examines the future outlook of computers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: Catalogues the outcomes of some forecasts he made in his book entitled, The Future: Machines that Think, and What They Might Do for Men.