Description: This article celebrates the tremendous progress that has been made in automating reinsurance data. It also looks at remaining issues, such as a lack of standardization, and challenges presented for the future.

Description: Overview of evolving industry trends and examples of how life insurers in Canada are innovating.

Description: Article describing new and interesting computer programs.

Description: In this article, the author describes how to get data into and out of R.

Description: Letter from the new chairman of the Technology Section Council introducing the new council members.

Description: Outline of modifications to formulas in previously released FORTRAN program to compute two-life annuities, including those designated 'qualified joint and survivor annuities' in the ERISA Act of 1974.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting cover the history, current status and future of Internet security. Topics discussed include firewalls, encryption software and how Internet networks are constructed.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss currently available data standards, forecasts about the future uses of data standards, and standards being adopted by Information Technology departments.

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 paper documents the R language and its applications.