Yearbook · all 22 papers

pldb yearbook

POPL Class of '73

22 graduates · cited 375× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

A Unified Approach to Global Program Optimization

cited 249× within PLDB · Kildall

Late Bloomer

Deterministic Parsing of Ambiguous Grammars

half of its 6 citations came 44+ years after it graduated · Aho et al.

Biggest Group Project

Actor Induction and Meta-Evaluation

6 authors · Hewitt et al.

Class Clown

Types are Not Sets

shortest title in the class: 18 characters · Jr.

Prom Couple

Analysis of a Simple Algorithm for Global Flow… & A Unified Approach to Global Program…

cited together by 10 papers · Hecht & Ullman; Kildall

Ghosted

41% of the class (9 of 22)

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

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

Class of '75 (1975) ›

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.