Yearbook · all 23 papers

pldb yearbook

POPL Class of '81

23 graduates · cited 292× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Dependence Graphs and Compiler Optimizations

cited 71× within PLDB · Kuck et al.

Late Bloomer

On the Advantages of Free Choice: A Symmetric and Fully Distributed Solution to the Dining Philosophers Problem

half of its 22 citations came 32+ years after it graduated · Lehmann & Rabin

Teacher's Pet

Inferring Types in Smalltalk

cites 4 other POPL papers · Suzuki

Biggest Group Project

A Program Development Tool

5 authors · Alberga et al.

Class Clown

Formal Program Testing

shortest title in the class: 22 characters · Cartwright

Prom Couple

A Program Development Tool & Incremental Evaluation for Attribute Grammars…

cited together by 2 papers · Alberga et al.; Demers et al.

Ghosted

39% of the class (9 of 23)

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

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

‹ Class of '80 (1980) Class of '82 (1982) ›

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.