Description: Outline of modifications to formulas in previously released FORTRAN program to compute two-life annuities, including those designated 'qualified joint and survivor annuities' in the ERISA Act of 1974.

Description: This article ecourages actuaries to get up to date with the use of the internet as personal computing and electronic communications are changing the way we do business.

Description: This article is a brief review of the book “Crime by Computer,” by Donn B. Parker. If you have from time to time become concerned about the security of computer programs records and transactions, this book will give little comfort.

Description: Perhaps readers will send us additions to the following short list of events in the mathematical world associated with years ending in the digits 82. These are taken from IBM’s history chart, “Men of Modern Mathematics.”

Description: Catalogues the outcomes of some forecasts he made in his book entitled, The Future: Machines that Think, and What They Might Do for Men.

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

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.

Description: With the convergence and consolidation of the financial services industry, the advent of new technologies and the Internet, and increased focus on the customer, actuaries are facing a brand new set of challenges. This editorial prefaces the articles in this issue that point out some key challenges and opportunities facing today’s actuaries.

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: 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.