15 years of best paper awards from top cs conferencesjeffhuang.com8 points·by jamesturn·16 anni fa·6 comments
jamesturn·12 anni fa·discussJust curious, so this is a university staff position or are you enrolling in a business school as a student? Either way, congrats!
jamesturn·14 anni fa·discussI think most of the world pays 50% more than Americans for most things. It's just a fact of life for them.
jamesturn·15 anni fa·discussResearchers from Berkeley developed a fairly good Starcraft AI engine that combined micro-management, pathing, and overally strategy to win the Starcraft AI competition: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/01/skynet-meets-the-...
jamesturn·15 anni fa·discussFor the Starcraft watcher/spectator's counterpart of the article, there is the University of Washington Starcraft spectators study: http://jeffhuang.com/Final_StarcraftSpectator_CHI11.pdfThey explain the many types of people that watch Starcraft, and that Starcraft games are fun to watch because of "Information Asymmetry"
jamesturn·15 anni fa·discussThe scary thing is that this is someone who has access to his private Facebook profile, aka one of his Facebook "friends". And he doesn't know who it is. There are traitors among his friends.
jamesturn·16 anni fa·discussHere are the ones for SIGCOMM: http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/best-paper-award It looks like there's only 3 years of them so it would be easy to add.SIGMETRICS seems to have only a few years of awards as well. But there is no central list of them.
jamesturn·16 anni fa·discussFound it on reddit compsci but thought it'd be more appropriate here.The ranking on the bottom is interesting:Microsoft Research 20.2Carnegie Mellon University 19.77University of Washington 14.67Stanford University 12.43IBM Research 9.7Cornell University 9.62University of California Berkeley 8.28University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8.0University of Alberta 7.14University of British Columbia 7.0Yahoo! Research 6.82AT&T Laboratories 6.58University of Toronto 6.33Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5.53University of Massachusetts Amherst 4.92