This is also very interesting: the AAAI Classic Paper Award. The AAAI Classic Paper award honors the author(s) of paper(s) deemed most influential, chosen from

This is also very interesting: the AAAI Classic Paper Award. The AAAI Classic Paper award honors the author(s) of paper(s) deemed most influential, chosen from a specific conference year. Each year, the time period considered will advance by one year. Papers will be judged on the basis of impact, for example: Started a new research (sub)area Led to important applications Answered a long-standing question/issue or clarified what had been murky Made a major advance that figures in the history of the subarea Has been picked up as important and used by other areas within (or outside of) AI Has been very heavily cited https://aaai.org/Awards/classic.php https://aaai.org/Awards/classic.php