Yearbook · all 26 papers

pldb yearbook

OOPSLA Class of '03

26 graduates · cited 562× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed & Valedictorian

Language support for lightweight transactions

cited 110× within PLDB; Most Influential OOPSLA Paper (awarded 2013) · Harris &…

Late Bloomer

Ulterior reference counting: fast garbage collection without a long wait

half of its 25 citations came 9+ years after it graduated · Blackburn & McKinley

Teacher's Pet

Lazy modular upgrades in persistent object stores

cites 13 other OOPSLA papers · Boyapati et al.

Biggest Group Project

Effectiveness of cross-platform optimizations for a java just-in-time compiler

14 authors · Ishizaki et al.

Class Clown

Dynamic metrics for java

shortest title in the class: 24 characters · Dufour et al.

Prom Couple

An on-the-fly mark and sweep garbage collector… & Mostly concurrent garbage collection revisited

cited together by 5 papers · Azatchi et al.; Barabash et al.

Ghosted

Nobody.

Every paper in the class has been cited within PLDB. Wholesome.

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.