Yearbook · all 25 papers

pldb yearbook

ICFP Class of '96

25 graduates · cited 350× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

A Provable Time and Space Efficient Implementation of NESL

cited 46× within PLDB · Blelloch & Greiner

Valedictorian

Optimality and Inefficiency: What Isn't a Cost Model of the Lambda Calculus?

Most Influential ICFP Paper (awarded 2006) · Lawall & Mairson

Late Bloomer

Synchronous Kahn Networks

half of its 9 citations came 16+ years after it graduated · Caspi & Pouzet

Class Clown

Mixin Modules

shortest title in the class: 13 characters · Duggan & Sourelis

Prom Couple

A Provable Time and Space Efficient… & Let-floating: Moving Bindings to Give Faster…

cited together by 2 papers · Blelloch & Greiner; Jones et al.

Ghosted

8% of the class (2 of 25)

never cited within PLDB. No names. We're not monsters.

pldb.kirancodes.me/fun/yearbook · within PLDB

Class of '97 (1997) ›

Citations are between papers within PLDB, one per pair, newer versions of the same paper excluded. Late Bloomer needs 5+ citations; Ghosted is hidden for the last three classes, who are still being read. Older classes have thinner citation data.