Description: Using Johns Hopkins data around the COVID-19 pandemic, this article explores the interaction between selecting a metric and the different ways of visualizing it.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. In this session three panelists related recent personal experiences with respect to emerging trends in hardware, software, and methodologies.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussed the computer buzzwords such as expert systems, object orientation, artificial intelligence,software engineering, open systems, fuzzy logic, image, EDI, GUI, CASE, and database management system. Then it addressed what actuaries think about some of the latest technologies.

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 discussion has a look at valuation techniques best suited for Electronic Data Processing equipment and if any basic changes has resulted since the introduction of Electronic Data Processing. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This article discusses errors in spreadsheets, their implications and ways to mitigate them.

Description: Feature article about the appropriate use of spreadsheets.

Description: Feature article about the use of approximations.

Description: Call for reviews and articles on software programs.

Description: Book review of 'Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook'