Yearbook · all 32 papers

pldb yearbook

OOPSLA Class of '98

32 graduates · cited 575× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed & Valedictorian

Ownership Types for Flexible Alias Protection

cited 183× within PLDB; Most Influential OOPSLA Paper (awarded 2008) · Clarke et al.

Late Bloomer

A Lambda Calculus of Objects with Self-Inflicted Extension

half of its 8 citations came 10+ years after it graduated · Gianantonio et al.

Teacher's Pet

Contraint-Based Polymorphism in Cecil: Towards a Practical and Static Type System

cites 9 other OOPSLA papers · Litvinov

Biggest Group Project

Object-Oriented Practice in 1998: Does it help or hinder collaboration? (Panel)

7 authors · Artim et al.

Class Clown

Question time! about Use Cases

shouted in its title · Cockburn & Fowler

Prom Couple

Making the Future Safe for the Past: Adding… & Compatible Genericity with Run-Time Types for…

cited together by 30 papers · Bracha et al.; Cartwright & Jr.

Ghosted

28% of the class (9 of 32)

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.