There's 29 top CS conferences there with best papers since 1996. And NeurIPS and ICSA will be added soon...
There's 29 top CS conferences there with best papers since 1996. And NeurIPS and ICSA will be added soon...
It's kind of surprising to me that Microsoft Research is the all-time leader, gathering more best paper awards than any top university. Wow. This in itself tells a story about Microsoft Research.
Do you happen to have a time series on this? Would be interesting to see the trends in your data, e.g. to check how industrial research fares vs. academic research as a function of time. (There are some theories suggesting that industrial research is in a general decline [0]. Though the "best paper awards" metric is surely far from being perfect, it might still be viable as a proxy for corporate research performance.)