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 ...
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.
The Manila Times

The Apache Software Foundation Launches $10M Responsible AI Initiative with Initial $1.75M Donation

Wilmington, DE, April 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced the launch of its Responsible ...
insideHPC

Apache Spark Survey Reveals Increased Growth in Users and New Workloads Including Exploratory Data Science and Machine Learning

In order to better understand Apache Spark’s growing role in big data, Taneja Group conducted a major market research project, surveying approximately 7,000 people. The sample was made up of technical ...
Linux Journal

Linux Meets AI: Top Machine Learning Frameworks You Need to Know

Linux has long been the backbone of modern computing, serving as the foundation for servers, cloud infrastructures, embedded systems, and supercomputers. As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine ...