Description: In the world of digital excitement, Blockchain is the newest kid on the technology block. Pull up any search engine, punch in “Blockchain” and find yourself inundated with articles praising improvements over current centralized network systems that many insurers use. But is this praise warranted, and does Blockchain truly cure all ails? In this article, we pose commonly asked questions as well as provide answers from the perspective of an insurance company.

Description: Describes Web 2.0 and discusses its benefits.

Description: Column from the Technology Section chair discussing technological advances since the early ‘90s.

Description: MG-ALFA software receives award for The Technical and High Performance Computing Innovation Partner of the Year Award. Microsoft wanted to recognize a partner that innovated by enabling simulation and modeling in the cloud, using windows HPC Server burst capability.

Description: This article is about Content Management Systems and other software to help build a web site for a small business.

Description: This article contrasts the madness of the building of the Winchester House, a large California mansion, to business intelligence and data warehousing systems.

Description: The editor introduces a new newsletter format and asks for ideas for articles.

Description: Welcome to the third edition of Cool Tech. This is where the author points out cool things on the Web.

Description: We compare two predictive analytics methods - GLM and GBM in terms of predictiveness vs. interpretability.