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: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss strategies for increased modeling speed as risk management, valuation and product development activities have been requiring increasingly complex financial models.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session explored the advantages and disadvantages of using several computer languages for actuarial work. In addition, the role of spreadsheets was discussed.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about the state-of-the-art in packaged software, the requirements of such systems, and current and future health care developments that must be addressed.

Description: Vendor representatives discuss their ALM systems, what they do and don't do, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Also includes a comparative survey of the capabilities of a number of the existing systems. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion covered hardware, programs, time sharing services and programming languages available at that time.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Discusses the new capabilities offered by Windows 95 from the perspectives of the end-user, software developer, and system administrator.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting examine corporate software applications in terms of at least three tiers, and how actuarial applications have blurred the distinction among these tiers.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session offers a retrospective and prospective look at the development of actuarial pricing models and technology tools.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. This panel analyzed the choices between purchasing actuarial software and developing the software in-house. Topics discussed: 1. Determination of software needs. 2. Evaluation of software packages. 3. Combining in-house developed software with commercial software. 4. Modifying commercial software to the needs of the organization. 5. Staffing and training for in-house developments versus staffing and training for installation of purchased software.