Yearbook · all 32 papers

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POPL Class of '84

32 graduates · cited 392× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System

cited 136× within PLDB · Deutsch & Schiffman

Late Bloomer

Reflection and Semantics in Lisp

half of its 53 citations came 20+ years after it graduated · Smith

Teacher's Pet

A Types-as-Sets Semantics for Milner-Style Polymorphism

cites 5 other POPL papers · Wand

Class Clown

The Semantics of Local Storage, or What Makes the Free-List Free?

asked the room a question · Halpern et al.

Prom Couple

Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80… & Creating Efficient Systems for Object-Oriented…

cited together by 9 papers · Deutsch & Schiffman; Suzuki & Terada

Ghosted

6% of the class (2 of 32)

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.