Woody Epstein

He Cooked Well. Fuck Authority.

Projects and Papers

Woody’s Projects

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Download as PDF MRJ70 / MRJ90 Preliminary System Safety Assessment (PSSA) ABSC in 2009 performed a PSSA for Mitsubishi Aircraft (MJET). This PSSA will be used to qualify the safety of the new regional jet for use worldwide and for FAA Type certification. RISKMAN for Nuclear Safety Woody is the lead developer and architect for the most widely used probabilistic ® RISKMAN … [Read more...] about Woody’s Projects

Woody’s Perspective

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Risk Analysis is a formal discipline, and only that: it gives the analyst a rigorous form into which he casts insights, expertise, measurements, and scientific and engineering knowledge. By providing a formal structure, it leads and guides the analyst to approach problems in a reviewable and transparent way, which is just good science. To solve large problems, software tools … [Read more...] about Woody’s Perspective

Can We Trust PSA?

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Download the full document as PDF Qui a vist Paris et noun Cassis, ren a vist. If one has seen Paris, but not Cassis, one has seen nothing. --- an old Provencal expression W. Epstein [ref]ABS Consulting, Koraku Mori, Building, 1-4-14 Koraku Chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-0004, Japan, sepstein@absconsulting.com [/ref] and A. Rauzy [ref]IML/CNRS, 163, Avenue de Luminy, Case … [Read more...] about Can We Trust PSA?

A Short History of Open PSA

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Download as PDF This document was initially presented as a slide-show and is currently available for downloading in PDF It was in Osaka, eight years ago, on the first evening of the late autumn rains. After a hard day at PSAM 6, my head ached. I sat in a small yakatori joint in Kita Shinchi, nursing a sake, when a guy wandered in and ordered a shochu straight up. From the … [Read more...] about A Short History of Open PSA