Yearbook · all 42 papers

pldb yearbook

ICFP Class of '97

42 graduates · cited 388× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed & Valedictorian

Functional Reactive Animation

cited 126× within PLDB; Most Influential ICFP Paper (awarded 2007) · Elliott & Hudak

Late Bloomer

Type-Driven Defunctionalization

half of its 15 citations came 25+ years after it graduated · Bell et al.

Biggest Group Project

Tupling Calculation Eliminates Multiple Data Traversals

4 authors · Hu et al.

Class Clown

BigTypes in ML

shortest title in the class: 14 characters · McAdam

Prom Couple

A Modular, Polyvariant, and Type-Based Closure… & Strongly Typed Flow-Directed Representation…

cited together by 3 papers · Banerjee; Dimock et al.

Ghosted

33% of the class (14 of 42)

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

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

‹ Class of '96 (1996) Class of '98 (1998) ›

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.