Yearbook · all 27 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '79

27 graduates · cited 82× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Predicting the effects of optimization on a procedure body

cited 16× within PLDB · Ball

Late Bloomer

Automatic storage optimization

half of its 7 citations came 24+ years after it graduated · Fabri

Class Clown

Program checking

shortest title in the class: 16 characters · Williams

Prom Couple

Practical LR error recovery & Global context recovery: A new strategy for…

cited together by 2 papers · Graham et al.; Pai & Kieburtz

Ghosted

26% of the class (7 of 27)

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

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

Class of '82 (1982) ›

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.