Interesting to see that Microsoft is on top of the best-paper award list with 43 points, and MIT is third on the list with 30 points. IBM and Google are way further down the list, just to name a couple.

This is why Microsoft deserves much more credit than it gets. Especially compared to Apple, which isn't even to be found on this list.

They probably would have, if the list went ten to fifteen years further back. The Advanced Technology Group was closed down in 1997 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Technology_Gr...).

One could argue that neglecting fundamental research will be their downfall in the long term, and that may be true, but looking at what happened to Apple since 1997, one could also argue that focusing on the shorter term gave them enough resources to buy technology, if needed. So, instead of having to guess what technologies will become important, they can wait and see and then buy them (of course that has its risks, too; they may have to place too many less risky bets to ensure that they have the winning bet, or someone might not want to sell a truly disruptive invention)

Also Papers We Love:

http://paperswelove.org/

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love

But I think these are papers written by Baker, rather than recommended by him.