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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A tool to ease the job of developing software for multicore processors in Deterministic Parallel Java was released by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...

Lambda expressions are the biggest features integrated into Java 8. This functional programming paradigm was, until now, missing from Java. Its inclusion now will only help Java grow in the right ...

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 ...

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.

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.