Yearbook · all 29 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '91

29 graduates · cited 732× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Refinement Types for ML

cited 161× within PLDB · Freeman & Pfenning

Valedictorian

A Data Locality Optimizing Algorithm

Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2001) · Wolf & Lam

Late Bloomer

Soft Typing

half of its 87 citations came 20+ years after it graduated · Cartwright & Fagan

Teacher's Pet

Register Allocation via Hierarchical Graph Coloring

cites 8 other PLDI papers · Callahan & Koblenz

Biggest Group Project

Fortran at Ten Gigaflops: The Connection Machine Convolution Compiler

4 authors · Bromley et al.

Class Clown

Practical Dependence Testing

third-shortest title in the class: 28 characters · Goff et al.

Prom Couple

Practical Dependence Testing & Efficient and Exact Data Dependence Analysis

cited together by 11 papers · Goff et al.; Maydan et al.

Ghosted

7% of the class (2 of 29)

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

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

‹ Class of '90 (1990) Class of '92 (1992) ›

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.