Every "best paper" from Computer Science conferences since 1996

[yurylifshits]

Btw, this is one of the areas where Yahoo! has a lot of success. Yahoo! Research in its current form exists for around 5 years, but it has already surpassed MIT.

[St-Clock]

I'm not sure who voted you up, but the second part of this comment looks trollish (apologies if it wasn't).

For a starter, this is a very small subset of computer science conferences (e.g., the main software engineering and programming language conferences are missing). I'm not sure in which field Yahoo! Research works (looks like data mining), but in SE and PL, they are inexistent.

Best paper awards are just one metric among many. Citations, venue impact factor, number of publications are other (imperfect) metrics. It's probably fair to say that MIT and other big universities and corporate labs (IBM and Microsoft) have high scores in all of these metrics, whereas Yahoo! Research is still too young and too small to compete with even smaller but dynamic universities w.r.t. these metrics.

[gnosis]

According to what metric?

[sb]

Thanks for the link, I really like the site. However, my interests are more in the area of programming languages (PLDI, POPL, OOPSLA, etc.). Does anybody know of something similar for ACM SIGPLAN conferences? (I know they hand out "most influential" awards after 10 years consideration time, but "best papers" in general for many conferences should give a pretty good picture of the state of any field over time...)

[mahmud]

What is your specialization? I can send some survey papers your way. (I already tweet them as I find them.)

I go through 2-10 papers a day, nearly on PL research, semantics, type-theory and implementation lore. There are a bunch of us on HN, some I correspond with via email, others twitter.

[gnosis]

It's interesting to compare this list to Citeseer's "Most Cited Computer Science Articles":

http://ksuseer1.ist.psu.edu/stats/articles

[mathgladiator]

These are going directly on the kindle; thank you.

[chanux]

Did anyone notice that Microsoft tops the Institutions and best papers table while Google is the last?. (And Yahoo is #9)

[St-Clock]

1. This is a very limited subset of conferences/fields. 2. Google Research is younger than Microsoft Research. 3. Google Research is really mixed with their product development whereas Microsoft (and IBM) Research are more isolated so they can focus on fundamental research and publications (there is some transfer...). A Google representative once said in a software engineering conference: "Come work at Google Research, you'll work on real and interesting research problems like GMail". Gmail==Research? Really?

[cdavid]

Note that it is a very limited metric, I would not try to deduce too much from it. Also, MS research recrutes a lot of people top in their fields (up to fields medal/nobel prize kind of level), which helps tremendously when you only look only at metrics for the top.

[shadowpwner]

This is great! However, if I click on the 2010 one (edit:any), I get to a "purchase this article". Is this what's expected?

[gnosis]

Try searching CiteSeerX:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/

A google search of the site is sometimes more productive. For instance:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fcites...

[dododo]

the title is wrong. it's not every "best paper": notably all best papers before 2005 are missing for ICML.

in terms of metrics of research quality, not all conferences are equal, and "best" papers are often selected by a relatively small group of people whose decision isn't really validated too much.

[whathappenedto]

sorry, it seemed to cover most of the conferences I knew about. where would one start looking for something like older best paper awards? it seems like ICML only started giving out best paper awards since 2005

I guess it's the old truism of not being able to prove something does not exist

[akg_67]

Agree, title is misleading, may be put up to attract eyeballs. It doesn't include few other prominent conferences also such as USENIX conferences FAST and LISA.

[abhaga]

Here is the link for best paper awards for 3 more conferences from NLP/CL area: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Best_paper_awa... .

[bigfoot]

"Every best paper from CS conferences" does not really sound like what this site does -- list best papers from 11 CS conferences, a marginal fraction of how many CS conferences are out there.

[swannodette]

Interesting, no category at all for Programming Languages.

[schumihan]

Why are there so many "best papers" on CHI 2010?

[Technophilis]

CHI is a huge conference. More than 1000 papers were submitted last year. A designated committee chooses 1% of the submitted papers to receive the best papers awards which explains the number of awarded papers.