The use of electronic data processing systems in the life insurance business

Abstract

It was under the impetus of the last war that several rapid computing devices were developed. They did very difficult and important mathematical work for the government and, in doing so, demonstrated a capacity to handle work similar to that found in many offices. It is not surprising, then, that at the end of the war some of us began to feel that machinery of this kind might be very useful in the life insurance business.