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.
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...)
It's interesting to compare this list to Citeseer's "Most Cited Computer Science Articles":<p><a href="http://ksuseer1.ist.psu.edu/stats/articles" rel="nofollow">http://ksuseer1.ist.psu.edu/stats/articles</a>
the title is wrong. it's not every "best paper": notably all best papers before 2005 are missing for ICML.<p>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.
Here is the link for best paper awards for 3 more conferences from NLP/CL area: <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Best_paper_awards" rel="nofollow">http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Best_paper_awa...</a> .
"Every best paper from CS conferences" does not really sound like what this site does -- list best papers from <i>11</i> CS conferences, a marginal fraction of how many CS conferences are out there.