Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 25 years

This is an awesome compilation. Thanks! Few comments: - Take the institution ranks (except the top 10) with a grain of salt. In theory conferences (eg. FOCS, STOC, SODA), the order of authors is alphabetical. - Best student paper has a different meaning for theory vs systems conferences. In theory conferences, it is given to a paper who's all authors are full-time students. In systems conferences, it is given to a paper who's first author is a full-time student. So…

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…

Thanks for this! I serendipitously found a 21 year old SOSP paper with a concept that may have relevance to a problem at work! Also, why does ACM paywall 21 year old papers?

At the bottom of the list is a summary of the number of "best papers" by institution. Interestingly, Microsoft Research is at the top of the list: Microsoft Research 32.4 Stanford University 26.8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 24.6 University of Washington 24.1 Carnegie Mellon University 22.9 University of California Berkeley 19.5 ...