In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

James Gosling, the father of Java, one of the world's most widely used programming languages, has talked with research scientist Lex Fridman about Java's origins and his motivations for creating a ...

You know what they say: CS is the new econ. It feels like everyone at Columbia has taken, is taking, or plans to take at least one computer science class during their time here. If you fall into the ...

In the 1986 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty, the technology expert in the time-traveling starship's crew, is invited to use an Apple Macintosh, the most usable computer of the 1980s.

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

Computer scientists have developed an immersive, first-person player video game designed to teach students in elementary to high school how to program in Java, one of the most common programming ...

Welcome to a very unusual cybersecurity article! Why is it unusual? The title of this Security Bulletin and most of its content was provided by Oracle, the maker of the Java computer programming ...

In Thursday’s puzzle, “Java” was the answer to the clue “Programming language named for a drink named for an island.” By Alexis Benveniste This is Clued In, a column that will give you insight into ...