Description: This article celebrates the tremendous progress that has been made in automating reinsurance data. It also looks at remaining issues, such as a lack of standardization, and challenges presented for the future.

Description: Introduces new co-editor Eddie Smith and includes letters to the editor.

Description: Discusses the section’s LinkedIn group and the contents of the January issue of the newsletter.

Description: Letter from the new chairman of the Technology Section Council introducing the new council members.

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: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session presented ways of using technology of 1993 in order to further actuarial applications and actuarial projects. The speakers related recent personal experiences in which emerging trends in hardware, software, and methodologies have been utilized.

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: Cognitive tests used in the long-term care insurance industry differ in cognitive domains tested, time required for testing, ease of test administration, sensitivity and specificity. Recently, new approaches to scoring or testing have improved test utility for screening for cognitive impairment.

Description: This discussion is about how are computers being used for Underwriting of individual policies mortality and morbidity studies, including the derivation of exposures, analysis of claims, etc. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

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.