Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 30 years

39 points by jeffhuang

jeffhuang

I've been maintaining this directory of best paper awards in computer science for 20 years, and it has 30 years of best paper awards from 32 fairly representative computer science conferences.

If you're looking for some papers to read, this may be a good place to start. Note that they are papers selected in the year of the conference, and not a retrospective from the future of what were the best papers of that conference.

msangi

Conferences also have “most influential paper” or “test of time” awards looking back at papers from older editions (usually the one 10 years before).

That might be useful to compile the retrospective list. Example for ICSE https://www.icse-conferences.org/mostinfluential.html
gignico

Wow this is really cool, thanks!
romes

Wow! Excellent work. It’d be cool to also have POPL on the list :)
- jeffhuang
  
  Yup, it was only recently that POPL got a distinguished paper award. I usually let it season for 5+ years before adding it to the list.
harrigan

Great list. As someone who follows blockchains/crypto pretty closely, I went looking for anything in that space and there are just two entries: the 2019 VLDB paper on data provenance the 2019 WWW paper on detecting in-browser crypto mining. Neither one was particularly influential. I know lots of academics (and people in this sub) roll their eyes at crypto, but that's kind of the point: these best paper awards seem to have completely missed the genuinely interesting ideas in that field. And there definitely are some!
- sloane
  
  do you have any to recommend?
bernhard

It'd be good to see USENIX Security, CCS, and NDSS on here too!
oceanhaiyang

This is really cool. Great example of what an academic blog can be.