Description: Math puzzles highlighting mathematical oddities.

Description: This is an interview with Stephen F. Siegel, Director of Knowledge Engineering at Applied Intelligence Systems, Inc. Mr. Siegel defines what an expert system is, how they are built and their applicability in the life insurance industry.

Description: The author, from the United Kingdom, as a member of the Institute’s working group that devised LAN, the Linear Actuarial Notation. The author notes this article is a supplement to The actuary’s ‘IAN, LAN & CAN’ article in the November 1980 issue. The article discusses this actuarial notation system, designed for use in the computer age.

Description: Diagram displaying the relationships between the various annuity certain functions.

Description: The University of Wisconsin–Madison used its Centers of Actuarial Excellence grant to develop technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools that would be distributed publicly to supplement the actuarial education classroom experience.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 11. This is a debate regarding two approaches to Life Insurance Illustrations: The Range approach vs. the Current Scale approach

Description: Editorial about life insurance replacements. Editor encourages all life actuaries to help find a solution to this problem.

Description: Author describes how he developed graduated policy-year withdrawal rates using crude withdrawal data that was available by calendar duration but that also was distorted by reporting lags.

Description: The author notes: ‘as actuaries familiar with computers are thoroughly aware, the Halo notation the century-old life contingencies system we all learned as students has to be “linearized” strung out in a straight line for computer programming.’ This article describes a linearized notation that the author has used successfully for several years, for programming use only.