A team of researchers at the University of Illinois' Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) has developed a parallel implementation of Java.

Among other things, cloud applications will also benefit from parallel programming, so Scala could be used to optimize cloud applications as well. Scala is an open source language.

An article by that title over at GigaOM has gotten a lot of attention on the interwebs over the past couple weeks, so I hereby present you with a link to said article, plus an excerpt to keep you warm ...

This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective.

One size does not fit all, and it never will. Parallel programming looks to level the playing field by leveraging multicore hardware.

Reinders said. He added that he believes parallel programming may lead to new companies attacking problems with new approaches to compete with existing businesses. Exploiting Parallelism ...

Native support for HSA’s specifications in JVMs is expected with Java 9 in 2015, and parallel algorithms will be executed natively in JVMs without extra layers of code. The JVM will recognize ...

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit ...

4. Date APIs The Date API is a new addition to Java 8. Before Date APIs, Developers needed to use Joda time library, but now everything works out of the box. The new Date API borrows heavily from ...