Yearbook · all 26 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '04

26 graduates · cited 710× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Cloning-based context-sensitive pointer alias analysis using binary decision diagrams

cited 190× within PLDB · Whaley & Lam

Valedictorian

Scalable lock-free dynamic memory allocation

Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2014) (one of 2 award winners) · Michael

Late Bloomer

The set constraint/CFL reachability connection in practice

half of its 48 citations came 13+ years after it graduated · Kodumal & Aiken

Teacher's Pet

Symbolic pointer analysis revisited

cites 12 other PLDI papers · Zhu & Calman

Biggest Group Project

Dynamic path-based software watermarking

7 authors · Collberg et al.

Class Clown

Parametric regular path queries

shortest title in the class: 31 characters · Liu et al.

Prom Couple

Cloning-based context-sensitive pointer alias… & Symbolic pointer analysis revisited

cited together by 25 papers · Whaley & Lam; Zhu & Calman

Ghosted

8% of the class (2 of 26)

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

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

‹ Class of '03 (2003) Class of '05 (2005) ›

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.