Yearbook · all 36 papers

pldb yearbook

OOPSLA Class of '08

36 graduates · cited 459× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed & Valedictorian

jStar: towards practical verification for java

cited 61× within PLDB; Most Influential OOPSLA Paper (awarded 2018) · Distefano &…

Late Bloomer

Efficient software model checking of soundness of type systems

half of its 11 citations came 9+ years after it graduated · Roberson et al.

Teacher's Pet

Java performance evaluation through rigorous replay compilation

cites 12 other OOPSLA papers · Georges et al.

Biggest Group Project

Design and implementation of transactional constructs for C/C++

14 authors · Ni et al.

Class Clown

Java type inference is broken: can we fix it?

asked the room a question · Smith & Cartwright

Prom Couple

Generics of a higher kind & The visitor pattern as a reusable, generic…

cited together by 4 papers · Moors et al.; Oliveira 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.