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

Description: Feature article discussing the latest computer programs.

Description: David Januszewski looks at the the development of open source software in statistics. By comparing the virtues between SAS, the proprietary software and R, the open source software used by statisticians, he thinks that open source software "can and does coexist with the proprietary software" and "both have a purpose. "He further looks at the availability of the open source software in the actuarial profession and does not see "open source software sweeping across actuarial science like it has with other fields". Dave explains the possible uses and virtues of the open source software to actuaries and asserts that it may be beneficial that the open source is used together with the propriety software.

Description: The Modeling Platform

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: 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 paper documents the R language and its applications.

Description: The key tasks of credit risk capital project under CROSS II mainly focus onL(1 )Adjustment of measurement framework; (2) Calibration of risk factors, including both credit spread risk and credit default risk;3)Introduction of concentration risk measurement; (4) Higher requirement on look-through rule.