Description: Panelists discuss the impact that technological advances – especially advances in computer technology – have had on society and the insurance industry in particular. They also consider the impact such advances in the future will have on the job of the actuary. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: Panelists present a basic overview of the internet and its potential uses. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses: turning a data processing center into a profits center, licensing your computer software, legal problems in development of software from the employer-employee perspective, contracting for the development of software, patents, royalties.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 The panel discussion covered: · The basic concepts underlying fuzzy logic · Current applications to risk classification and pricing · Possible future uses of fuzzy logic · The basic concepts underlying neural networks · Current applications of neural networks in life insurance · Possible future uses of neural networks

Description: This 1981 session focused on Recent Trends in Computer Technology including: i. What is the new hardware? 2. What opportunities are offered by the new hardware? a Administrative/service-oriented possibilities I Totality of information storage 2 Paperless administration/elimination of hard copy records 3 Effect on user 4 Different/flexible structure of information 5 On-line processing concurrent with data processing b Product-oriented possibilities i Universal life 2 Flexible premium annuities 3 Adjustable life 4 Retired lives reserve 5 Bank annuities 6 Variable life/annuities From Record of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Description: This 1981 session focused on Recent Trends in Computer Technology including: i. What is the new hardware? 2. What opportunities are offered by the new hardware? a Administrative/service-oriented possibilities I Totality of information storage 2 Paperless administration/elimination of hard copy records 3 Effect on user 4 Different/flexible structure of information 5 On-line processing concurrent with data processing b Product-oriented possibilities i Universal life 2 Flexible premium annuities 3 Adjustable life 4 Retired lives reserve 5 Bank annuities 6 Variable life/annuities From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 3.

Description: The panelists of this session 142PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting discuss how they got into computer science and explain the various types of activities involved in their jobs as actuaries in computer science. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 142PD.

Description: This presentation is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. This discussion on technology reviews recent [as of 1955] uses of electronic data processing equipment and major computer installations. The speakers also look at the prospects of joint use of large-scale installations by two or more companies, and discuss specific actuarial activities that can be accommodated by electronic data processing machinery, such as calculation of dividends, cash values, and policy reserves.

Description: This digest of special presentation by the Committee on New Recording Means and Computing Devices reviews progress in technology and describes the approach to an electronic operating system for Ordinary insurance. This discussion highlights and describes Punch Card Computer operation and Magnetic Tape computers.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss strategies for increased modeling speed as risk management, valuation and product development activities have been requiring increasingly complex financial models.