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Malware and virus entries in the NIST Computer Security Resource Center glossary by
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Primary institutional glossary, Definitions: intentional harmful purpose and unauthorized effects on data/systems. Virus entry csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/virus distinguishes attachment to host programs/files and self-replication. Direct virus-page fetch timed out; the underlying official NIST SP800-83r1 section2.1, nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/specialpublications/nist.sp.800-83r1.pdf , independently verifies the host-file replication definition. Only high-level terminology used; no execution, infection or concealment procedure reproduced.
Recommended 8-Bit YUV Formats for Video Rendering by Gary Sullivan and Stephen Estrop by
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Primary source: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/medfound/recommended-8-bit-yuv-formats-for-video-rendering
Verified locator: Primary Microsoft technical article explicitly by Gary Sullivan and Stephen Estrop, April2002, updated November2008. YUV Sampling defines4:4:4/4:2:2/4:2:0 and distinct sample grids. Color Space and Chroma Sampling Rate Conversions gives matrix constants and interpolation examples. Introduction uses U/V for Cb/Cr; that naming convention is local to this guide.
Verified locator: June2015, Parameter values for the HDTV standards for production and international programme exchange, primary ITU publication. Printed page3 item1.1 specifies nonlinear primary conversion; page4 items3.2–3.4 specify primed-signal coefficients0.2126/0.7152/0.0722, colour-difference divisors1.8556/1.5748 and219/224/16/128 digital scales. Published edition cited explicitly; nonlinear luma is distinguished from photometric luminance.
Primary first-person academic biography. Paragraphs1–2 verify research on non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs, Harvard graduation in1997, MIT doctorate, IBM Zurich work, Virginia appointment in2007 and Northeastern move in2016. Name-case paragraph explicitly permits conventional capitalization. The page links image shelat.khoury.northeastern.edu/dl/0101c.png ; web image fetch returned cache miss and a single sandbox raw-fetch fallback was denied, so no unviewed image is embedded and no repository copy stored.
Guide to Integrating Forensic Techniques into Incident Response by Karen Kent and others by
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NIST SP800-86, August2006, DOI10.6028/NIST.SP.800-86; first author Karen Kent verified on official record csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/86/final . Section2.1, printedp.2-2, and section3 describe collection, examination, analysis and reporting; section3.1 addresses data integrity and section3.3 interpretation/correlation. Primary institutional guide concerns incident response and troubleshooting, not only criminal proceedings. Clock-offset example is independently stipulated, not an incident reconstructed from the guide.
Guidelines for Media Sanitization by Ramaswamy Chandramouli and Eric A. Hibbard by
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NIST SP800-88 revision2, September2025, DOI10.6028/NIST.SP.800-88r2; official landing page csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/88/r2/final . Printed cover byline Ramaswamy Chandramouli and Eric A.Hibbard; landing page omits Hibbard’s middle initial. Sections3.1.1–3.1.3, printedpp.8–11, distinguish clear/purge/destroy by recovery effort and reusability; sections4.5.1–4.5.2, pp.24–25, distinguish outcome verification from adequacy validation. Revision2 supersedes revision1. Concept article contains no device-erasure commands or operational recipe.
Primary institutional glossary, Definitions: self-contained program and propagation through computer networks/data-processing systems; cites CNSSI4009 and NIST publications. The page also lists the unrelated acronym WORM for write-once-read-many storage; that acronym is not the malware definition used here.
Verified locator: §2.7.1.2 opening definitions and Semi-Planar YUV overview table; NV12/NV21/NV12M/NV21M subsection. Two-plane luma/interleaved-Cb-Cr versus fully planar storage,8-bit4:2:0 layouts, reversed chroma pair order and stride/contiguity rules. The article arithmetic assumes even dimensions and a stated untiled layout.
Primary source: man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/unlink.2.html
Verified locator: DESCRIPTION: removes a name, last-link and last-open-reference lifetime conditions, symbolic-link behavior; STANDARDS lists POSIX.1-2024. Readable primary Linux user-space interface documentation, man-pages6.19. Open Group POSIX pages returned403, so claims here are explicitly scoped to this documented interface.
Primary source: docs.lib.purdue.edu/cstech/702/
Verified locator: Purdue primary repository, report88-823, item702,41pages, version date18November1988. Author-hosted indexed title page/Abstract spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/tech-reps/823.pdf identifies Eugene H. Spafford, incident2November1988, independent reverse-compilations and disassembly; that PDF title page is dated29November1988 and revised8December1988. Keep version dates distinct. Direct repository PDF403; author URL currently displays legacy-access form. No implementation details or invented incident measurements.
Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices by Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat by
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Primary source: shelat.khoury.northeastern.edu/research/2003-02-01-remembrance_of_data_passed_a_study_of_disk_sanitization_practices/
Verified locator: Primary coauthor publication page verifies title, authors and IEEE Security and Privacy, January/February2003. Original paper mirror www.lifespantechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IEEEReportonDataPrivacy.pdf verifies printed byline Simson L. Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat, volume1(1),17–27; DOI10.1109/MSECP.2003.1176992. Pages24–26, Our experiment and conclusions:158 used drives, damaged/unreadable devices and explicit sample limitation. No population prevalence inferred.
Project primary guide, 2nd Example: Conditional hyperparameters, and 3rd Example: Forbidden clauses; separate references automl.github.io/ConfigSpace/latest/reference/conditions/ and automl.github.io/ConfigSpace/latest/reference/forbiddens/ . Conditions determine parameter activity; forbidden conjunctions exclude configurations. Only conceptual semantics used, no untested version-specific API instructions or transcription of example typos.
Artificial Intelligence 126(1–2), 43–62 (2001), DOI 10.1016/S0004-3702(00)00081-3. Primary full byline Carla P. Gomes and Bart Selman on page 43. Abstract and sections 4–5 compare parallel, interleaved and restart portfolios on stated search-problem distributions; no claim of universal speedup.
PyTorch 2.15, LayerNorm equation and Parameters/eps: epsilon is inside the square root after adding it to coordinate variance; correction=0 uses the divisor equal to the number of normalized coordinates. Parameters are learned per element when elementwise_affine is enabled; eps defaults to . Statistics come from the same input in training and evaluation modes. These documented conventions define the stabilized map used in the accompanying independent derivations.
Corporate technical documentation, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives Developer Guide and Reference, version2021.12, documentID790148, displayed date24June2024. Precise locators: Pixel-Order Image Formats and Planar Image Formats tables, especially RGB rows; separate component planes contrasted with adjacent per-pixel channel values. No individual author is inferred.
Published by World Wide Web Consortium. Cited as a corporate specification, without inferring an individual author. Precise locators: §5.1, simple alpha compositing and premultiplied output; §9.1.4, Source Over. The cited edition is explicitly a Candidate Recommendation Draft dated21March2024.
Purdue Department of Computer Science memorial dated17January2024; prepared by Eugene H.Spafford with assistance by Simson Garfinkel, as explicitly credited at the end. Opening paragraphs verify John Rischard Rice, birth6June1934 and death7January2024. Scientific-computing paragraph credits his leadership of ELLPACK development for elliptic problems. Assistance is not treated as a second authorship byline.
Advances in Computers 15, 65–118 (1976), DOI 10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60520-3. Publisher summary and full byline John R. Rice verified in indexed primary record; direct publisher open returned 403. Abstract models, feature-based selection and variable performance criteria. Earlier institutional technical report 75-152 (1975): docs.lib.purdue.edu/cstech/99/ . The report and chapter dates are kept distinct; no fuller identity or dates inferred.
Personal research biography: doctoral supervision by Geoffrey Hinton and research interests; named page with its own portrait at assets/images/jimmy_ba.jpg. Historical degree/publication details are used independently of present employment.
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
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