Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses the impact of computers of all sizes and types on the environment in which actuaries conduct business from the internal to the external environments. From Record Of The Society Actuaries Volume 9, Number 3

Description: Speakers discuss how to develop alternative or improved processing methodologies to reduce errors, correct error tracking tools, and metrics. Participants discuss balancing reasonable testing given time constraints. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 47IF of the Toronto Spring Meeting

Description: This session discussed three dramatic shifts in everyday economic relationships: 1 From matter to information, 2 From firms to individuals, and 3 From sellers to buyers. The instructor discussed application service providers and their impact on the economy and the Internet.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses systems management, how users have become involved in the development of systems and the formal systems development process. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: Record of the Society of Actuaries: 1981 Vol.7 No. 1 This is a panel discussion session examining life insurance company organization and the emerging managerial environment, strategies and organization.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses the future use of computers and technology including how computers impact the environment in which actuaries conduct business.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session reviewed actuarial algorithms and programming techniques that have proved useful in many applications over the years, including approximations, interpolations, valuation methods, etc.

Description: Panelists discuss using computer technology in the following ways: [1] computer programs [software] as communication tools, [2] using the Microsoft.NET product, and [3] ways to detect false claims. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 71PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This is a discussion on computer systems. Specifically it highlights new computer applications in: insurance administration, both personal and group sales illustrations and information to field offices, corporate modeling and use of time-sharing and mini-computers by actuaries. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: This panel discussion was session number 3 at the 2004 Society of Actuaries Spring Meeting, held in San Antonio, TX June 14-15. The panelists explored the problems between actuaries and IT people, how neither either understands the other's perspective, with frustrating results for both sides. But the speakers feel that, “with some tolerance and understanding, both can profit from the other's approach.” A theme in the discussion was that better communication will improve understanding. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.