Description: This paper first discusses the history of the legislation of the joint and survivor benefits for the uniformed service personnel. It then goes on to address the specific actuarial assumptions made and the formulas developed for applying these assumptions for adaptability to the UNIVAC. This paper closes with specific programming procedures involved in using the UNIVAC.

Description: This article summarizes the Retirement Systems Practice Area Advanced Technology Working Group Report. Formed to project developments in technology and their applications, the Advanced Technology Working Group’s goal was to improve all aspects of Society of Actuaries services for its members in the retirement systems practice area. Although the emphasis was on pension actuaries, many ideas are equally applicable to other areas.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 1 that discusses the potential of APL as a basic actuarial programming language, particularly the applications involving ACT. ACT is a notational language for use in a time-sharing environment and consists of a comprehensive set of macro functions defined in APL.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1960: 1. 'Ensuring Medical Care for the Aged' by M. Spiegelman, 2. 'All Lines Insurance' edited by D.McGill, 3. 'Alternative Methods of Financing Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance' by J. J. Carroll, and 4. 'Installing Electronic Procedures-A Progress Report' by J. J. Finelli. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: In the second half of 1997, magazine and newspaper reports started appearing in droves about the presumed doomsday of Jan. 1, 2000, for any and all activities associated with computers. This article discusses the 'Y2K problem' and the costs of addressing it.

Description: Health Watch, Issue 79, December 2015, Health Watch

Description: Most courses in Excel, Word, PowerPoint or other Microsoft Office products stop just short of teaching you the highly productive things you can do with Visual Basic for Applications VBA, the powerful language that comes free with your purchase of Microsoft Office. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. This discussion on technology reviews recent [as of 1955] uses of electronic data processing equipment and major computer installations. The speakers also look at the prospects of joint use of large-scale installations by two or more companies, and discuss specific actuarial activities that can be accommodated by electronic data processing machinery, such as calculation of dividends, cash values, and policy reserves.

Description: This article provides responses to a March 1981 query in The Actuary about the use of home computers.

Description: The panel discusses the cost feasibility of a large scale computer being shared by a group of smaller companies, applications found for medium sized computers and the extent companies are using deck size electronic computers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.