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

The group is one of several that top computer makers have funded to help create new programming models and tools for next-generation multicore systems. Research in parallel systems is driving work on ...

With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

1. Lambda expressions Lambda expressions are the biggest features integrated into Java 8. This functional programming paradigm was, until now, missing from Java.

Industry consortium HSA Foundation intends to bring native support for parallel acceleration in Java virtual machines, which would make it easier to tap into multiple processors like graphics ...

Intel and Sun say that parallel programming is about to go mainstream.

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.