Yearbook · all 27 papers

pldb yearbook

OOPSLA Class of '04

27 graduates · cited 512× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Chianti: a tool for change impact analysis of java programs

cited 70× within PLDB · Ren et al.

Valedictorian

Mirrors: design principles for meta-level facilities of object-oriented programming languages

Most Influential OOPSLA Paper (awarded 2014) · Bracha & Ungar

Late Bloomer

Object-oriented units of measurement

half of its 10 citations came 16+ years after it graduated · Allen et al.

Teacher's Pet

Converting java programs to use generic libraries

cites 12 other OOPSLA papers · Donovan et al.

Biggest Group Project

The garbage collection advantage: improving program locality

6 authors · Huang et al.

Class Clown

Super and inner: together at last!

shouted in its title · Goldberg et al.

Prom Couple

Converting Java classes to use generics & Converting java programs to use generic…

cited together by 11 papers · Dincklage & Diwan; Donovan et al.

Ghosted

7% of the class (2 of 27)

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

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

‹ Class of '03 (2003) Class of '05 (2005) ›

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.