While I was writing about Jeff Huang’s Best Paper Awards in Computer Science (2013), which lists “best paper” awards, I thought about the ACM awards for dissertations and other contributions to computer science.
I mostly follow the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award but you won’t lack for high grade reading material following any of the other award categories.
Dissertation links take you to the author’s entry in the ACM Digital library, not the dissertation in question.
Another idiosyncratic “feature” of the ACM website. Tech support at the ACM opines that some secret group, that members cannot contact directly, is responsible the “features” of the ACM website. Such as not being able to download multiple citations at one time.
I wrote to the editor at CACM about the “features” process. If you haven’t seen that letter in CACM, well, I haven’t either.
Letters critical of the opaque web “features” process don’t rate high on the priority list for publication.
If you have any improvements you want to suggest to the ACM site, please do so. I will be interested in hearing if your experience is different from mine.