May 2014

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  • Chairperson’s Corner

    A discussion about the definition of technology.By Albert Moore
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  • Letter from the Editor

    I would like to take a moment to introduce myself as the newest member of the CompAct team. My name is Donald Armstead. I joined the SOA Technology Section Council at the end of last year. …By Donald Armstead
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  • Best Article of CompAct – 2013

    Present and past editors of CompAct choose award winning articles from 2013 issues of CompAct.By Paul Ramirez
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  • Losing My Precision: Tips For Handling Tricky Floating Point Arithmetic

    How to deal with the problems created in Excel when the cumulative sum of probabilities for an approximated binomial distribution are less than one.By Mary Pat Campbell
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  • Have You Lost That Loving Feeling, For Mathematics?

    How and when did you first conclude that you love math?By Rich Junker
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  • Comments on THE SECOND MACHINE AGE: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

    A book review.By Jack Fahrenbach
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  • Tackling the “Enormous” Data Problem

    Thoughts on how to handle the vast amount of data created by the computer revolution.By Albert Moore
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