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：计算机体系结构广泛涉及优化当前和未来处理系统的硬件与软件。尽管ASPLOS、HPCA和MICRO等顶级会议也是发表计算机体系结构研究的重要场所，但ISCA（国际计算机体系结构研讨会）是发表计算机体系结构研究历史最悠久、持续时间最长且最具声望的会议之一。自1973年以来，除1975年外，ISCA每年举办一届。因此，今年恰逢ISCA五十周年。我们着手分析过去五十年的ISCA会议，以揭示迄今驱动和革新计算系统的关键人物与要素。分析结果揭示了若干有趣趋势，这些趋势反映了ISCA乃至整个计算机体系结构领域在过去五十年间的成长与演变，涵盖小型计算机、通用单处理器CPU、多处理器与多核CPU、通用GPU以及加速器等方向。