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If anyone likes checking out other lists of best paper awards, I've been collecting them (with the help of a few individuals and AllenAI) at https://jeffhuang.c

• pabo 6y ago
  What an interesting collection, thanks! It's kind of surprising to me that Microsoft Research is the all-time leader, gathering more best paper awards than any top university. Wow. This in itself tells a story about Microsoft Research. Do you happen to have a time series on this? Would be interesting to see the trends in your data, e.g. to check how industrial research fares vs. academic research as a function of time. (There are some theories suggesting that industrial research is in a general decline [0]. Though the "best paper awards" metric is surely far from being perfect, it might still be viable as a proxy for corporate research performance.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246672
  • lazyjeff 6y ago
    Thanks for the comments. I don't have it in time-series format. You could scrape the page pretty easily to get it (even just a grep should get you most of what you want). I'm not sure if the N is big enough per year to give a reliable trend graph, but you're welcome to try.