Yearbook · all 34 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '08

34 graduates · cited 1,390× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Liquid types

cited 204× within PLDB · Rondon et al.

Valedictorian

A practical automatic polyhedral parallelizer and locality optimizer

Most Influential PLDI Paper (awarded 2018) · Bondhugula et al.

Late Bloomer

Grammar-based whitebox fuzzing

half of its 74 citations came 11+ years after it graduated · Godefroid et al.

Teacher's Pet

Conditional correlation analysis for safe region-based memory management

cites 17 other PLDI papers · Wang et al.

Biggest Group Project

Type-preserving compilation for large-scale optimizing object-oriented compilers

7 authors · Chen et al.

Class Clown

Fair stateless model checking

second-shortest title in the class: 29 characters · Musuvathi & Qadeer

Prom Couple

Velodrome: a sound and complete dynamic… & Race directed random testing of concurrent…

cited together by 17 papers · Flanagan et al.; Sen

Ghosted

3% of the class (1 of 34)

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.