Yearbook · all 52 papers

pldb yearbook

OOPSLA Class of '14

52 graduates · cited 639× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

GPS: navigating weak memory with ghosts, protocols, and separation

cited 64× within PLDB · Turon et al.

Valedictorian

Adaptive LL(*) parsing: the power of dynamic analysis

Most Influential OOPSLA Paper (awarded 2024) · Parr et al.

Late Bloomer

Fast conservative garbage collection

half of its 6 citations came 11+ years after it graduated · Shahriyar et al.

Teacher's Pet

Understanding energy behaviors of thread management constructs

cites 7 other OOPSLA papers · Pinto et al.

Biggest Group Project

Cybertron: pushing the limit on I/O reduction in data-parallel programs

10 authors · Xiao et al.

Class Clown

Confined gradual typing

shortest title in the class: 23 characters · Allende et al.

Prom Couple

EventBreak: analyzing the responsiveness of… & Statistical debugging for real-world…

cited together by 8 papers · Pradel et al.; Song & Lu

Ghosted

4% of the class (2 of 52)

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.