Yearbook · all 45 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '07

45 graduates · cited 1,573× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Valgrind: a framework for heavyweight dynamic binary instrumentation

cited 218× within PLDB · Nethercote & Seward

Valedictorian

The ant and the grasshopper: fast and accurate pointer analysis for millions of lines of code

Best Paper (one of 3 award winners) · Hardekopf & Lin

Late Bloomer

Practical memory leak detection using guarded value-flow analysis

half of its 40 citations came 12+ years after it graduated · Cherem et al.

Teacher's Pet

Making context-sensitive points-to analysis with heap cloning practical for the real world

cites 12 other PLDI papers · Lattner et al.

Biggest Group Project

EXOCHI: architecture and programming environment for a heterogeneous multi-core multithreaded system

9 authors · Wang et al.

Class Clown

Parameterized tiled loops for free

“for free”, a classic bit · Renganarayanan et al.

Prom Couple

The ant and the grasshopper: fast and accurate… & Making context-sensitive points-to analysis…

cited together by 22 papers · Hardekopf & Lin; Lattner et al.

Ghosted

2% of the class (1 of 45)

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

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

‹ Class of '06 (2006) Class of '08 (2008) ›

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.