Mr. Block, who studied classical violin growing up in Oshkosh, Wis., was a self-taught sandal maker who helped popularize open-toed footwear.
The Mid-Century Modern style, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School of architecture, also allowed families to be near each other while still moving freely through the home, popularizing open-concept floor plans that are still in demand today.
Although technology companies may have popularized the open office environment, now almost all office tenants are adopting aspects of it.
The developer popularized an open plan that blends kitchen, dining and living spaces into a multipurpose room.
The philosophy "release early, release often", popularized by open source software advocate Eric S. Raymond, will be harder to follow for Twitter app developers.
The project also faces the hurdle of trying to popularize an open source project — these projects often sound great on paper, but doesn't work too well in practice.
One of the most prominent parallel programming paradigms is MapReduce, popularized by its open-source implementation of Apache Hadoop [6].
As he pointed out in a conversation embedded below, open source has always been about the cloud, a vast army of disconnected programmers iteratively building a platform of free services with the kind of commercial open source strategy popularized by JBoss and MySQL.
Sanger popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The heart of both books is the idea of an open society, a term popularized by the philosopher Karl Popper, who was the undergraduate tutor of Mr. Soros.
