Caption: Machine learning and artificial intelligence are fundamentally changing the field of computer science, requiring the skills of physicists. Over the years, we've talked a lot on Spark about ...

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.

Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...