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: 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: Speakers discuss how to develop alternative or improved processing methodologies to reduce errors, correct error tracking tools, and metrics. Participants discuss balancing reasonable testing given time constraints. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 47IF of the Toronto Spring Meeting

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: 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: 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: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about experiences, benefits, problems, and pitfalls associated with advances in technology.

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: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session addressed systems management and discussed these questions: 1. Why is it so difficult to forecast delivery times and resource requirements? 2. Should I build or buy? 3. What project management techniques have worked for you? 4. Why do systems development projects often go out of control? 5. What is the systems development life cycle? 6. Why does testing always prove inadequate?