Description: This is a summary of the biography of Charles Babbage, 1791-1871, much of whose life was devoted to inventing and constructing machines to free actuaries and other sufferers from the drudgery of repetitive arithmetic.

Description: This article talks about the challenges facing the FDA, especially those arising from the globalization of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

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

Description: In this article, we talk to Lei Rao-Knight, FSA, Vice President and Actuary at Prudential Financial. Lei discusses her model development experience in the Modeling Center of Excellence.

Description: Insurance professionals are seeing the industry change before their very eyes, and many are being forced to change with it. But it seems those pushed and pushing the most are those touched directly by the Internet’s World Wide Web. In this article, seven executives and professionals are interviewed about their work on this new fast track. They sometimes had widely varying opinions, but they agreed on two points: the Web is rapidly forcing a restructuring of the way insurance business is done, and this will create new and perhaps more opportunities for actuaries.

Description: Editor discusses feedback on new format of newsletter and solicits volunteers for more articles.

Description: This article is the second in a four-part series about eliminating the confusion with using data terminology. Part one discussed data governance. This second part will discuss data analysis and database management.

Description: Digital Long-Term Care Insurer for the Post-Coronavirus World.

Description: This article gives an historical description of calculating and tabulating equipment used by, and is some cases developed by, actuaries in their work.

Description: New Co-Editor Richard Junker introduces himself and his plans for the newsletter.