Maria Pacheco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is also a faculty fellow at CU’s Institute of Cognitive Science, and affiliated ...

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.

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...