Francis, Collins, and Lowe Win Data Management Prizes

From left: Carole Banfield, president of the Insurance Data Management Association; Louise Francis; and Bob Wolf, chairperson of the CAS Committee on Management Data and Information; Doug Collins.

The CAS Committee on Management Data and Information and the Insurance Data Management Association awarded prizes to authors of two papers submitted in response to the CAS committee's call for Data Management/Data Quality/Data Technology papers. Prize winners for 2001 are Louise Francis and the team of Douglas J. Collins and Stephen P. Lowe. Francis won for her paper "Neural Networks Demystified" and Collins and Lowe for their paper, "A Macro Validation Dataset for U.S. Hurricane Models." Francis and Collins presented their papers at the 2001 Ratemaking Seminar, held March 11-13 in Las Vegas.