Yearbook · all 59 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '14

59 graduates · cited 1,582× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

FlowDroid: precise context, flow, field, object-sensitive and lifecycle-aware taint analysis for Android apps

cited 222× within PLDB · Arzt et al.

Valedictorian

Compiler validation via equivalence modulo inputs

Best Paper (one of 4 award winners) · Le et al.

Late Bloomer

Modular control-flow integrity

half of its 6 citations came 9+ years after it graduated · Niu & Tan

Teacher's Pet

Persistent pointer information

cites 9 other PLDI papers · Xiao et al.

Biggest Group Project

Race detection for event-driven mobile applications

8 authors · Hsiao et al.

Class Clown

What exactly is inexact computation good for?

asked the room a question · Palem

Prom Couple

Race detection for event-driven mobile… & Race detection for Android applications

cited together by 35 papers · Hsiao et al.; Maiya et al.

Ghosted

10% of the class (6 of 59)

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

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

‹ Class of '13 (2013) Class of '15 (2015) ›

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.