In the 1986 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty, the technology expert in the time-traveling starship's crew, is invited to use an Apple Macintosh, the most usable computer of the 1980s.

One interpretation of this graph shows Java (blue) being overtaken by C (black) over the course of the decade. What this interpretation belies is the fact that Java and the C family (C, C++, and C#) ...

James Gosling, the father of Java, one of the world's most widely used programming languages, has talked with research scientist Lex Fridman about Java's origins and his motivations for creating a ...

Java's popularity continued to decline this month, almost clearing the path for Python to snatch its spot as the world's second most popular programming language, according to Tiobe's latest ...

The Department of Homeland Security is urging computer users to disable or uninstall the Java programming language because of a serious security vulnerability. The flaw in Java 7 "can allow a ...

SEATTLE -- Days after settling a lawsuit with rival Sun Microsystems over alleged misuse of Sun's Java computer language, Microsoft Thursday outlined a plan aimed at getting millions of Java ...

Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S. students to programming and computer science, according to a recent survey posted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

James Gosling among most prominent Sun execs to leave Gosling does not give reason for leaving Oracle Gosling says disclosing reason would 'cause harm' Oracle spokeswoman declines comment BOSTON, ...

Java may still be getting bad press when it comes to (mostly consumer) security, but it continues to be the world's most popular software development language. That's according to TIOBE Software's ...