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Surprised to see this here, because I don't remember reposting this today (but I did post a couple days ago after midnight and nothing happened), so maybe it's

Surprised to see this here, because I don't remember reposting this today (but I did post a couple days ago after midnight and nothing happened), so maybe it's some @dang magic. Anyways, I recently updated this collection over the new year (with a bit of help from two students). It's not meant to be a comprehensive list of all best paper awards, but a fairly representative one across the main conferences in computer science. I guess I think of it as the Oscars (Academy Awards) of Computer Science Papers. It originated because award announcements and conference websites disappear quickly because each year a different organizer manages the website, so this information is lost forever. And I wanted a way to look back and see what people thought was the best paper in that year to see if those paper indeed made an impact. Those who are more quantitative may be interested in this aggregated list of which institutions produce the most best paper awards: https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards/institutions.html https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards/institutions.html And the interesting thing that came out of it is the number of best paper awards is highly correlated with the US News ranking of computer science departments (which is purely based on subjective surveys of department chairs and graduate directors): https://drafty.cs.brown.edu/csopenrankings/ https://drafty.cs.brown.edu/csopenrankings/

macintux 5y ago
There's a mechanism for moderators to re-share posts they feel are interesting but didn't attract attention.
bts 5y ago
Thank you very much for maintaining this list! Have you considered adding ICFP in addition to PLDI for programming language papers?
- lazyjeff 5y ago
  Thanks for the note, but I'm afraid not. At this point, it's taking a lot of time for the data entry each year, plus conferences are now almost all awarding 3-6 best papers rather than 1, so the annual work has expanded considerably. Also it's a lot harder now to find the older awardees as various websites have disappeared, and former PC chairs often have forgotten the outcome.
Kyragem 5y ago
Best paper awards correlated to highest subjective rankings of CS departments? No surprise here. like I said earlier these best paper awards are really an Ivy League circle jerk which is also evident based on that the top schools only hire each others grads students or worse their own! CS academia has been devoid of any new ideas for decades, also because the brightest minds work in industry where the Googles/Microsofts/Apples couldn't care less if you graduated with an Ivy League degree.

macintux 5y ago

There's a mechanism for moderators to re-share posts they feel are interesting but didn't attract attention.

bts 5y ago

Thank you very much for maintaining this list! Have you considered adding ICFP in addition to PLDI for programming language papers?

lazyjeff 5y ago
Thanks for the note, but I'm afraid not. At this point, it's taking a lot of time for the data entry each year, plus conferences are now almost all awarding 3-6 best papers rather than 1, so the annual work has expanded considerably. Also it's a lot harder now to find the older awardees as various websites have disappeared, and former PC chairs often have forgotten the outcome.

Kyragem 5y ago

Best paper awards correlated to highest subjective rankings of CS departments? No surprise here. like I said earlier these best paper awards are really an Ivy League circle jerk which is also evident based on that the top schools only hire each others grads students or worse their own! CS academia has been devoid of any new ideas for decades, also because the brightest minds work in industry where the Googles/Microsofts/Apples couldn't care less if you graduated with an Ivy League degree.