Description: Information technology may change the very concept on which the actuarial profession is based. The result could be the reduction of all risk categories to a category of one.” John Diebold, chairman of the Diebold Group of management consultants, told a luncheon audience at the Centennial Celebration.

Description: This article provides information on how to navigate the Internet's World Wide Web and tap into resources of interest to actuaries.

Description: Feature article describing what author thinks it will take for a life insurance company to be successful in the year 2020.

Description: The author notes the decline in the study of compound interest and the effect of computers on the subject.

Description: Describes a concise, easily remembered algorithm to determine the exact number of days between two specified dates, without reference to the number of days in each of the intervening months.

Description: This is a summary of the biography of Charles Babbage, 1791-1871, much of whose life was devoted to inventing and constructing machines to free actuaries and other sufferers from the drudgery of repetitive arithmetic.