Yearbook · all 29 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '05

29 graduates · cited 1,278× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

DART: directed automated random testing

cited 460× within PLDB · Godefroid et al.

Valedictorian

Pin: building customized program analysis tools with dynamic instrumentation

Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2015) (one of 3 award winners) · Luk et al.

Late Bloomer

Programming by sketching for bit-streaming programs

half of its 73 citations came 11+ years after it graduated · Solar-Lezama et al.

Teacher's Pet

Automatic pool allocation: improving performance by controlling data structure layout in the heap

cites 13 other PLDI papers · Lattner & Adve

Biggest Group Project

Optimising aspectJ

10 authors · Avgustinov et al.

Class Clown

Path slicing

shortest title in the class: 12 characters · Jhala & Majumdar

Prom Couple

DART: directed automated random testing & Scalable statistical bug isolation

cited together by 13 papers · Godefroid et al.; Liblit 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

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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.