IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine - Winter 2018 - 16

The Origins
of the ISSCS
A brief history

The 1960 session on
tunnel diodes, 1960.

David Pricer

T

he surviving documentation from the
earliest editions of
(as it is now called)
the IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
is rather sparse. However, a few clear
points emerge.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2017.2771104
Date of publication: 31 January 2018

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The Early Years
The budget for the first conference
in 1954 wasn't just small; it was
infinitesimal. Most of the pioneers
did not, at the time, appear to have a
clear notion that they were founding
an annual event, let alone an international conference. Writing afterward, John Linvill (the first program
chair) said he thought the conference
wasn't informal enough and already

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too large. Nonetheless, he thought
holding future conferences on this
subject might be useful "from time
to time."
Likewise, the conference's title was
rooted in uncertainty. In various
1954 documents, the conference was
referred to as any of the following:
the Transistor Conference, the Conference on Transistor Circuits, the
National Conference on Transistor

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