List of Best Paper Awards in Computer Science

(seen this in my social graph of friends)

By Conference:   AAAI   ACL   CHI   CIKM   CVPR   FOCS   FSE   ICCV   ICML   ICSE   IJCAI   INFOCOM   KDD   NSDI   OSDI   PLDI   PODS   SIGIR   SIGMOD   SOSP   STOC   UIST   VLDB   WWW

Microsoft Research is the Top Institution.

Institutions with the most Best Papers

Institutions with Best Papers
Microsoft Research	22.9
Carnegie Mellon University	20.8
Stanford University	19.8
University of Washington	19.0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	15.3
University of California Berkeley	13.5
Cornell University	10.9
University of Toronto	10.4
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	9.3
University of British Columbia	8.8
University of Texas at Austin	8.4
IBM Research	8.0
University of Oxford	6.2
Georgia Institute of Technology	5.8
University of Maryland	4.8
AT&T Laboratories	4.8
Weizmann Institute of Science	4.5
Yahoo! Research	4.4
McGill University	4.4
University of California San Diego	4.1
University of California Irvine	4.0
Rice University	3.5
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	3.5
Princeton University	3.4
Google	3.4
University of Massachusetts Amherst	3.4
Brown University	3.3
Bell Labs	3.3
Technion	3.1
Columbia University	3.1
University of Michigan	3.0
University of Alberta	3.0
Hewlett-Packard Labs	3.0
ETH Zurich	2.8
University of Wisconsin	2.7
Max Planck Institut	2.6
Ohio State University	2.4
University of Nottingham	2.4
Duke University	2.3
University of Pennsylvania	2.3
Université Paris-Sud	2.1
Tel-Aviv University	2.1
Saarland University	2.1
National University of Singapore	2.0
Polytechnic Institute of New York University	2.0
University College London	2.0
University of Cambridge	2.0
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa	2.0
Indiana University at Bloomington	2.0
DePaul University	2.0
BBN Technologies	2.0
NASA Ames Research Center	2.0
NEC Labs America	2.0