(1) logistics: if you want a plaque, you can't wait until after all the presentations;
(2) timing: often, the best-paper awardee is scheduled early in the conference, to avoid accidentally scheduling it as the last paper on Friday afternoon;
(3) impact: the legitimate reason - if the best paper award is meant to recognize the paper most likely to have a long-term impact, presentation is not really a criterion. Just because the presenter was a nervous PhD student who mumbled the presentation read off a sheet word-by-word (has happened...), this doesn't diminish the technical impact or elegance.
I do think there should be a recognition of some sort for "best presentation", although that's a tough call to make. Featuring the presentation as a video on the conference home page might be a good way to highlight such presentations.
Henning
>
> An off-topic: I have also noted that some conference boards decide on
> the best papers even before the papers are presented during an event. It
> makes me wonder if the judges make their conclusions on a simple reading
> the submitted text or what? If something should be awarded at a
> conference (which I see as a place to present something creatively,
> discuss it with peers and maybe answer some tricky questions), it is a
> nonsense not to include author's public performance in front of the
> audience into the 'best paper awards'.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Miroslav Skoric
>
> --
> (tutorial instructor:
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> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html
> http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2009
> http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICWMC08.html
> http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/greece/education/
> http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2009/rodos/education)
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