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: In session 73OF of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the organizational approach to the actuarial systems function that has been applied in their organizations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session discussion is about technological advances. Topics discussed: 1. The exponential growth in power of the microchip. 2. The role of fiber optics in the revolution. 3. The role of the airwaves in the revolution. 4. The risks of over regulation.

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. In this session on data and interoperability standards for actuaries, the panel discusses the importance of open data standards which enable communication and transmission of data between different systems developed by different vendors. They also discuss the attached white paper entitled 'Proposed Data Standards for Table Data in the Insurance and Pension Industries' which was written by the Computer Science Section of the SOA to encourage adoption of the described standard.

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: 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 challenges participants to consider the insurance landscape over the next five to ten years and how existing business models need to evolve. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 19PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.

Description: In session 3PD of the New York Annual Meeting the panel discusses solutions such as data software and interface standards as possible solutions to the problem of having many different data storage and analysis systems that don't speak to each other. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session reviewed actuarial algorithms and programming techniques that have proved useful in many applications over the years, including approximations, interpolations, valuation methods, etc.

Description: The panelists address Health Insurance Portability and Accountabuility Act [HIPAA] related concerns for health insurers, such as: implementation issues, privacy, transactions and code sets, employer identification numbers, and current developments relative to the pending rules. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 65