Description: This article discusses how consultants can improve the chances of having their web sites placed highly in the results of an Internet search.

Description: This article describes the Actuarial Research Clearinghouse [ARCH] CD-ROM Project whereby the highlights of each Actuarial Research Conference [ARC] presentation are videotaped and then digitized and recorded on a CD-ROM. This disk is then used to develop a computer-based, user-friendly, multimedia summary of the highlights of ARC.

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: The Modeling Platform

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: Book review of The Mathematical Sciences, A Collection of 22 Essays, by the National Research Council's Committee on Support of Research in the Mathematical Sciences.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 6 is a recap of the LOMA Systems Forum held in New York, March 15-17, 1971.

Description: APL is both a unique form of mathematical notation and a programming language. As a notation it has intrinsic appeal and gives rise to many elegant and ingenious definitions of mathematical concepts. As a programming Language, or system, it also provides the user with instant evaluation of these concepts. The combination is extremely powerful, and some interesting applications may be demonstrated with respect to annuities.

Description: This discussion is divided in three sections: Further Application, asking how much accounting can be done on computers. Conversion, looking at further functions integrated into the systems by companies converting to Electronic Data Processing function-by-function and Savings, examining if it is any clearer what the ultimate savings from Electronic Data Processing will be. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: Decentralized insurance alternatives is a rapidly expanding sector of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), an emerging and growing financial ecosystem powered by blockchain technologies. The purpose of this report is to review and discuss the business models and operating designs of decentralized insurance alternatives, which may have significant implications for traditional insurance businesses, as well as the actuarial profession.