When we see a hand, regardless of whether it's open, in a fist, or pointing a finger, we still recognize it as a hand. If a computer has only been taught to recognize an open hand, however, it will ...

Some time ago I delegated rights to the desktop guys to create/delete computer objects on a 2003 domain. That domain has been upgraded to 2008. One of the guys began complaining that he cannot delete ...

Researchers have developed a new mathematical model to describe how the human brain visually identifies objects. The model accurately predicts human performance on certain visual-perception tasks, ...

The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, which is included with Windows Server 2008 R2, can be used to administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) objects, including computer ...

Is it possible to give a computer object NTFS permissions to read a file on a file server? If a user does not have access to the file, but the computer does, if a user sat at the specific computer, ...

With the DON system, a robot can perform novel tasks like look at a shoe it has never seen before and successfully grab it by its tongue. (Photo: Tom Buehler/CSAIL) For decades, robots in controlled ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

New research examines the fundamental cognitive abilities that an intelligent agent requires to navigate the world: discerning distinct objects and inferring how they respond to physical forces. Josh ...