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

Description: Panelists present a basic overview of the internet and its potential uses. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: What measures should be used in setting objectives and evaluating performance for companies and product lines, What variations are appropriate for stock and mutual companies and for United States and Canadian companies.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. These are the charts for Session 31PD - Data Warehousing for Actuaries.

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.