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和未来的处理系统优化硬件与软件。尽管发表计算机体系结构研究的顶级会议还包括ASPLOS、HPCA和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、持续最久且最具声望的会议之一。自1973年起（1975年除外），ISCA每年举办一次，今年恰逢其五十周年。为此，我们系统梳理了过去五十年的ISCA论文，旨在探究过去驱动和推动计算系统创新的关键人物与研究方向。分析揭示了若干引人注目的趋势，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发展与演变，涵盖小型机、通用单处理器CPU、多处理器与多核CPU、通用GPU以及加速器等领域。