Yearbook · all 38 papers

pldb yearbook

POPL Class of '08

38 graduates · cited 1,200× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

The design and implementation of typed scheme

cited 148× within PLDB · Tobin-Hochstadt & Felleisen

Valedictorian

Multiparty asynchronous session types

Most Influential POPL Paper (awarded 2018) · Honda et al.

Late Bloomer

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right (pearl): dissecting data structures

half of its 11 citations came 14+ years after it graduated · McBride

Teacher's Pet

Imperative self-adjusting computation

cites 7 other POPL papers · Acar et al.

Biggest Group Project

Engineering formal metatheory

5 authors · Aydemir et al.

Class Clown

Caml trading

shortest title in the class: 12 characters · Minsky

Prom Couple

Subcubic algorithms for recursive state machines & Demand-driven alias analysis for C

cited together by 24 papers · Chaudhuri; Zheng & Rugina

Ghosted

3% of the class (1 of 38)

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.