Yearbook · all 34 papers

pldb yearbook

POPL Class of '96

34 graduates · cited 1,189× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed & Valedictorian

Points-to Analysis in Almost Linear Time

cited 266× within PLDB; Most Influential POPL Paper (awarded 2006) · Steensgaard

Late Bloomer

Iterated Register Coalescing

half of its 6 citations came 22+ years after it graduated · George & Appel

Teacher's Pet

Using Parameterized Signatures to Express Modular Structure

cites 12 other POPL papers · Jones

Class Clown

Is it a Tree, a DAG, or a Cyclic Graph? A Shape Analysis for Heap-Directed Pointers in C

asked the room a question · Ghiya & Hendren

Prom Couple

A General Approach for Run-Time Specialization… & C: A Language for High-Level, Efficient, and…

cited together by 19 papers · Consel & Noël; Engler et al.

Ghosted

3% of the class (1 of 34)

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.