50 Years of ISSCC history

Back in 1954, the organizers of what would become the International Solid-State Circuits Conference did not know they were founding an international conference, or even an annual event. The only international presence at the first conference consisted of one attendee each from Canada and Japan. That perspective changed rapidly over the first few years. The first overseas papers appeared in 1958. In I960, after experimenting with almost-yearly title changes, the organizers settled on the present “International” title of the conference.