Description: The SOA launched the Actuarial Innovation & Technology Strategic Research Program earlier this year, focusing on projects in which technology is being used in actuarial work. The presenters will highlight reports from the program including a review of the Top Actuarial Technologies of 2019, the growing use of cloud computing and its impact on furthering and deepening actuarial analyses, and the growing innovative approaches using non-traditional data sources for risk selection and segmentation and its intersection with industry regulation. An overview of this new SOA research initiative and key findings from recently released reports will be covered.

Description: The interplay between technology and design to create safe, comfortable and thriving environments for aging in place and managing care costs.

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: Business success in the future depends on assumptions we make today. However, we operate in a dynamic environment and cannot know with certainty what lies ahead. Addressing the challenge requires a synergy between data science, expert judgement, and decision making to spot changing drivers of key risks and respond with appropriate business action. We will be presenting development of such an "ecosystem" technically enabled by Natural Language Processing to monitor and detect signals from news streams. NLP is of increasing importance for insurance companies. Additional application examples are available in session 23.

Description: This discussion examines the future outlook of computers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

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: 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