Yearbook · all 28 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '02

28 graduates · cited 1,239× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed & Valedictorian

Extended Static Checking for Java

cited 252× within PLDB; Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2012) · Flanagan et al.

Late Bloomer

Denali: A Goal-directed Superoptimizer

half of its 51 citations came 16+ years after it graduated · Joshi et al.

Teacher's Pet

Flow-Sensitive Type Qualifiers

cites 11 other PLDI papers · Foster et al.

Biggest Group Project

Space-Time Trade-Off Optimization for a Class of Electronic Structure Calculations

8 authors · Cociorva et al.

Class Clown

Profile-Guided Code Compression

second-shortest title in the class: 31 characters · Debray & Evans

Prom Couple

ESP: Path-Sensitive Program Verification in… & Extended Static Checking for Java

cited together by 29 papers · Das et al.; Flanagan 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.