{"id":26914,"date":"2022-09-06T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?p=26914"},"modified":"2022-09-06T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:18:46","slug":"2022-cas-hacktuary-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/2022\/09\/06\/2022-cas-hacktuary-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 CAS Hacktuary Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The deadline for the 2022 CAS Hacktuary Challenge is September 30, 2022. Enter for your chance to win the prize of $15,000. Entrants should complete the interest form below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actuary<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>\/ak(t)SH\u0259\u02ccwer\u0113\/ noun<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A professional who quantifies risk, particularly in the area of insurance<\/li>\n<li>A statistical discipline that focuses on financial uncertainties<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Hacktuary<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>\/hak(t)SH\u0259\u02ccwer\u0113\/ noun<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An actuary who is particularly skilled at the development of novel and technologically innovative solutions for risk engineering<\/li>\n<li>An actuary with strong programming skills who deploys them in clever ways<\/li>\n<li>Familiar reference to a contest sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) that supports the creation of risk engineering solutions of benefit to the insurance industry and the public<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>The CAS is pleased to announce its inaugural \u201cHacktuary Challenge,\u201d a contest designed to showcase the actuarial skill set in developing novel risk engineering solutions. The challenge offers a prize of $15,000 to the individual or group who develop an application that utilizes actuarial concepts to solve a pressing risk management problem related to personal auto insurance. The target platform of the application is open \u2014 it may be deployed as a mobile app, an interactive web site, a desktop application, or some other means. The only deployment criteria are that it be publicly available and feature interactive elements.<\/p>\n<p>Although focused on personal auto risk, the challenge is open to a wide range of ideas on this topic. Potential applications include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A mobile app that lets a user search locations, times, or days with heightened accident frequency.<\/li>\n<li>A searchable database of driver-assist features.<\/li>\n<li>A premium cost comparison with theoretical deductible amounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more and register: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casact.org\/article\/reminder-apply-2022-cas-hacktuary-challenge\">https:\/\/www.casact.org\/article\/reminder-apply-2022-cas-hacktuary-challenge\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for the 2022 CAS Hacktuary Challenge is September 30, 2022. Enter for your chance to win the prize of $15,000. Entrants should complete the interest form below. Actuary\u00a0\/ak(t)SH\u0259\u02ccwer\u0113\/ noun A professional who quantifies risk, particularly in the area of insurance A statistical discipline that focuses on financial uncertainties Hacktuary\u00a0\/hak(t)SH\u0259\u02ccwer\u0113\/ noun An actuary who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26915,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions\/26915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}