Yearbook · all 27 papers

pldb yearbook

POPL Class of '78

27 graduates · cited 775× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Automatic Discovery of Linear Restraints Among Variables of a Program

cited 478× within PLDB · Cousot & Halbwachs

Late Bloomer

Type Definitions with Parameters

half of its 15 citations came 38+ years after it graduated · Solomon

Teacher's Pet

Monoids for Rapid Data Flow Analysis

cites 6 other POPL papers · Rosen

Biggest Group Project

A Metalanguage for Interactive Proof in LCF

5 authors · Gordon et al.

Class Clown

Syntactic Control of Interference

second-shortest title in the class: 33 characters · Reynolds

Prom Couple

A New Method for Compiler Code Generation & A Portable Compiler: Theory and Practice

cited together by 8 papers · Glanville & Graham; Johnson

Ghosted

19% of the class (5 of 27)

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

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

‹ Class of '77 (1977) Class of '79 (1979) ›

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.