We learned this week that more than 317 million computer viruses or other malicious programs were unleashed by hackers last year, according to the Internet security firm Symantec.

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning found Google’s use of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (“API packages”) a fair use as a matter of law, with Justices Thomas and Alito ...

In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

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 ...

Java: Slow, ugly and irrelevant The programming language once hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough is no substitute for simply training good programmers.

Professor Adam Cannon’s famed Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Java (COMS W1004) is one of Columbia’s most well-known CS courses, but we all want to know what a course is really ...

Java is probably one of the most important bits of software your computer runs. It allows you to use everything from certain websites to certain online applications.

OpenJDK’s Project Leyden will implement condensers to improve the startup time, time to peak performance, and resource footprint of Java programs.

Sellers says Java is better suited than other programming languages for developing and running traditional enterprise applications that require a high degree of parallelism.