Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 90PD, from the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelists, including a chief technology officer and a Microsoft employee, introduce actuaries to XML, discussing the origins of XML and its relation to HTML. They discuss how to model with XML to achieve independence between platforms and systems. The speakers present XML applications, including online insurance, employee benefits and mathematics. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: This session will discuss how the business environment will change even more in the next ten years than it has in the last ten. From Session 56PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting.

Description: This session 52SM/OF/L of the New Orleans Annual Meeting provides an opportunity for Computer Science Section members to learn about current section activities and to provide input to the Section Council. A brief introduction to the J computer language is provided. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 52SM/OF/L.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Spring Meeting is intended to improve your understanding of the history, current status and future of Internet security and increase your awareness of encryption, viruses and solutions and countermeasures for internet security. Session 37OF

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting presents managing systems development. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about experiences, benefits, problems, and pitfalls associated with advances in technology.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session addressed systems management and discussed these questions: 1. Why is it so difficult to forecast delivery times and resource requirements? 2. Should I build or buy? 3. What project management techniques have worked for you? 4. Why do systems development projects often go out of control? 5. What is the systems development life cycle? 6. Why does testing always prove inadequate?

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 Meeting, Quebec. This session is about implementing new technology, choosing between competing technology, problems to watch out for, unexpected benefits, migrating from mainframe to client/server, automating the field force and large-scale networks.

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.