Yearbook · all 30 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '90

30 graduates · cited 623× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Analysis of Pointers and Structures

cited 150× within PLDB · Chase et al.

Valedictorian

Profile Guided Code Positioning

Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2000) · Pettis & Hansen

Late Bloomer

Task Granularity Analysis in Logic Programs

half of its 8 citations came 28+ years after it graduated · Debray et al.

Teacher's Pet

Register Allocation Across Procedure and Module Boundaries

cites 5 other PLDI papers · Santhanam & Odnert

Biggest Group Project

Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the FNC-2 Attribute Grammar System

5 authors · Jourdan et al.

Class Clown

Dynamic Program Slicing

shortest title in the class: 23 characters · Agrawal & Horgan

Prom Couple

The Program Dependence Web: A Representation… & Compact Representations for Control Dependence

cited together by 4 papers · Ballance et al.; Cytron et al.

Ghosted

10% of the class (3 of 30)

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

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

‹ Class of '89 (1989) Class of '91 (1991) ›

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.