Artificial Intelligence

Review: Spark lights a fire under big data processing

Apache Spark brings high-speed, in-memory analytics to Hadoop clusters, crunching large-scale data sets in minutes instead of hours

Ballmer says machine learning will be the next era of computer science

Former Microsoft CEO makes donation to expand Harvard's computer science department

IBM-Twitter deal gives Watson something to chew on

The IBM-Twitter partnership gives customers better analytics and offers IBM's Watson a body of real-world data to eat up

IBM debuts first Watson machine-learning APIs

APIs for Watson are available through IBM's Bluemix cloud service, covering the likes of machine translation to rendering visualizations of data

Bossie Awards 2014: The best open source big data tools

InfoWorld's top picks in distributed data processing, data analytics, machine learning, NoSQL databases, and the Hadoop ecosystem

Google buys maker of fascinating, creepy robots

Boston Dynamics is the eighth addition to Google's fast-growing robotics portfolio

Apple and Google need to put the brakes on car APIs

Along with Ford, the companies need to ease up on push for APIs that integrate consumer electronics into automobiles

10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years

Get a preview of 10 developing technologies that will be ubiquitous in 2021.

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Imaginations run wild with Java Lego robots

Learn to program the ultimate geek toy -- Lego Mindstorms -- in Java