Yearbook · all 44 papers

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OOPSLA Class of '87

44 graduates · cited 470× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Self: The Power of Simplicity

cited 151× within PLDB · Ungar & Smith

Valedictorian

Concepts and Experiments in Computational Reflection

Most Influential OOPSLA Paper (1986-1996 retrospective) (one of 2 award winners) ·…

Late Bloomer

Relations as Semantic Constructs in an Object-Oriented Language

half of its 16 citations came 18+ years after it graduated · Rumbaugh

Teacher's Pet

The Design and Implementation of Distributed Smalltalk

cites 9 other OOPSLA papers · Bennett

Biggest Group Project

Constraint Hierarchies

5 authors · Borning et al.

Class Clown

Retrofitting Objects

shortest title in the class: 20 characters · Filman

Prom Couple

Delegation Is Inheritance & Self: The Power of Simplicity

cited together by 11 papers · Stein; Ungar & Smith

Ghosted

23% of the class (10 of 44)

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

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

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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.