Computer Architecture, broadly, involves optimizing hardware and software for current and future processing systems. Although there are several other top venues to publish Computer Architecture research, including ASPLOS, HPCA, and MICRO, ISCA (the International Symposium on Computer Architecture) is one of the oldest, longest running, and most prestigious venues for publishing Computer Architecture research. Since 1973, except for 1975, ISCA has been organized annually. Accordingly, this year will be the 50th year of ISCA. Thus, we set out to analyze the past 50 years of ISCA to understand who and what has been driving and innovating computing systems thus far. Our analysis identifies several interesting trends that reflect how ISCA, and Computer Architecture in general, has grown and evolved in the past 50 years, including minicomputers, general-purpose uniprocessor CPUs, multiprocessor and multi-core CPUs, general-purpose GPUs, and accelerators.

翻译：计算机体系结构广义上涉及为当前及未来处理系统优化硬件与软件。尽管计算机体系结构研究的顶级发表场所还包括ASPLOS、HPCA及MICRO等，但ISCA（国际计算机体系结构研讨会）是该领域历史最悠久、持续最长且最具声望的学术会议之一。自1973年起（除1975年外），ISCA每年举办一届，今年恰逢其50周年。为此，我们系统性分析了ISCA过去50年的发展历程，以揭示驱动和推动计算系统创新的关键人与事。我们的分析识别出多个值得关注的趋势，这些趋势反映了ISCA乃至整个计算机体系结构领域在过去50年间的成长与演变，包括小型机、通用单核CPU、多处理器与多核CPU、通用GPU以及加速器的发展脉络。