silly (Score 1)

i found jacob's lists arbitrary and thus pretty meaningless. (for full disclosure, i'm an hci researcher in a lab that didn't make the lists.) xerox parc and cmu have been the source of a lot of great work (among others), but most of the field is a landscape of intellectual niches, nooks, and crannies spread over many institutions.

to me, ``best'' really depends on the sub-issues you are interested in. once you have identified those issues, you can drill down to the relevant labs and people.