Mr. Young is typically credited as the progenitor of musical Minimalism, and when institutions celebrate that style today — a frequent occurrence this season, with the recent 80th birthdays of Mr. Reich and Mr. Glass — it is fundamentally a commemoration of foundational composers and their influential aesthetic.
The origin story of metaphysics in philosophy is that after Aristotle wrote the Physics, a foundational text in western philosophy and science, he wrote another influential book that he never titled.
In his previous work at the University of California at Berkeley, Stonebraker developed two of his most influential systems, Ingres and Postgres, which provide the foundational ideas — and, in many cases, specific source code — that spawned several contemporary database products, including IBM's Informix and EMC's Greenplum.
This book is considered one of the key, foundational works of the cognitive revolution in psychology, and was enormously influential in the field (although it is better known for its introduction of concepts from computing and Artificial Intelligence research into psychology, rather than for its account of imagery mnemonics) (Gardner, 1987; Hirst, 1988; Galanter, 1988; Neisser, 1988 p. 85).
A good deal of feminist criticism has been focused on eighteenth-century philosophy because of the many influential works on beauty, pleasure, and taste that were written at that time and that became foundational texts for contemporary theories.
As the action-oriented perspective becomes more influential in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science, this volume offers a long-needed debate over foundational issues.
I want foundational health.
The foundational philosopher Mencius (371 289 bce), whose influence and popularity became such that he was known as the "second sage" of Confucian tradition after Confucius himself, provided the most influential interpretation.
"RISC was foundational," Andreessen says.
