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: 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.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 3PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 19-21 in Anaheim, CA. This computer science session covers a variety of hot technologies, including wireless business solutions, data integration and management for analytical applications, and grid computing. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1.

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: 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, Vol. 7, No. 3.

Description: The session is about maximizing cost efficiency of mainframe computers used at life insurance companies. From the 1976 Record, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: This discussion reviews progress made in the application of electronic data processing machines to smaller company operations as well as cost-benefit considerations.

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