InfoWorld

Spark picks up machine learning, GPU acceleration

Databricks, corporate provider of support and development for the Apache Spark in-memory big data project, has spiced up its cloud-based implementation of Apache Spark with two additions that top IT’s ...

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

ACM Prize in Computing Honors Matei Zaharia for Foundational Contributions to Data and Machine Learning Systems

NEW YORK, April 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Matei Zaharia as the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for his visionary development of ...
The Next Web

Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

Apache Spark creator and Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and argues that AGI has already ...
InfoWorld

AI and machine learning outside of Python

In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.
InfoQ

Autonomous Big Data Optimization: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Self-Tuning Apache Spark

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Spark MLlib: Making Practical Machine Learning Easy and Scalable

Xiangrui Meng of Databricks, a committer on Apache Spark, talks about how to make machine learning easy and scalable with Spark MLlib. Xiangrui has been actively involved in the development of Spark ...