Yearbook · all 36 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '06

36 graduates · cited 1,048× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Effective static race detection for Java

cited 198× within PLDB · Naik et al.

Valedictorian

DieHard: probabilistic memory safety for unsafe languages

Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2016) · Berger & Zorn

Late Bloomer

Auto-vectorization of interleaved data for SIMD

half of its 25 citations came 12+ years after it graduated · Nuzman et al.

Teacher's Pet

LOCKSMITH: context-sensitive correlation analysis for race detection

cites 12 other PLDI papers · Pratikakis et al.

Biggest Group Project

The Atomos transactional programming language

7 authors · Carlstrom et al.

Class Clown

Optimizing memory transactions

shortest title in the class: 30 characters · Harris et al.

Prom Couple

Effective static race detection for Java & LOCKSMITH: context-sensitive correlation…

cited together by 49 papers · Naik et al.; Pratikakis et al.

Ghosted

3% of the class (1 of 36)

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.