Many of his students have gone on to successful writing careers ; they include Gretchen Mazur, Helen Fremont, Michael Byers, Jardine Libaire, Porter Shreve, Davy Rothbart, John Fulton, Marc Nesbitt, Patrick O ' Keeffe, Jess Row, Francesca Delbano, Peter Orner, Heidi Julavits, Karl Iagnemma, Achy Obejas, James Morrison and Elwood Reid.

Many of the successful programs were transitioned to the Services, such as the foundation technologies in automatic target recognition, space based sensing, propulsion, and materials that were transferred to the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization ( SDIO ), later known as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ( BMDO ), now titled the Missile Defense Agency ( MDA ).

Many successful Hollywood films have been based on British people, stories or events, including Titanic, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films.

The Italian director-producer Mario Zampi also made a number of successful black comedies, including Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ), The Naked Truth ( 1957 ) and Too Many Crooks ( 1958 ).

Many missiles use a combination of two or more of the above methods, to improve accuracy and the chances of a successful engagement.

Many Assyrian and Babylonian palace walls were decorated with the pictures of the successful fights and the enemy either desperately escaping or hiding amongst reeds.

Many IFVs were also equipped with firing ports from which their infantry could fire their weapons from inside, although these were generally not successful and have been dropped from modern IFVs.

Many members of the creative staff from the magazine subsequently went on to contribute creatively to successful media of all types.

Many famous works were published in installments in it originally, including the most successful fiction Three Body, written by Liu Cixin.

Many Star Trek: Enterprise episodes refer to Starfleet having already been in full operation in 2119, when it funded research begun by Cochrane and Henry Archer leading to the first successful flight of Warp 3 vessels in the 2140s.

Many vehicles, especially crossovers, were abstract and futuristic, a trend started by the successful Nissan Murano and Infiniti FX crossovers.

Many breeds of horses have been successful show jumpers, and even some grade horses of uncertain breeding have been champions.

Many of Falun Gong's protests against negative media portrayals were successful, resulting in the retraction of several newspaper stories critical of Falun Gong.

Many found work with the drovers using the stock route and successful droves relied on the skill of these Aboriginal stockmen and women.

Many of Britain's IT professionals gained their early experiences on Acorns, which were often more technically advanced than commercially successful US hardware.

Many of the early, successful airborne operations were small, carried out by a few units, such as seizing a bridge.

Many sources characterize ShoreBank's efforts as overwhelmingly inspirational and successful.

Many people also keep their name for professional reasons, if a successful career was established before marriage.

Many later performances of the opera were also successful, not only with the general public but also with Strauss's peers: Maurice Ravel said that Salome was " stupendous ", and Mahler described it as " a live volcano, a subterranean fire ".

Many Australian bands and singers tried to enhance their careers by moving overseas, in particular to England, then seen as the mecca of popular music but few bands were successful and of those who relocated to the UK only The Seekers and The Bee Gees ( who were actually born and raised in the UK ) enjoyed any lasting success.

Many successful dramatic tenors have historically avoided the coveted high C in performance.

Many governments and companies continue to pursue caseless ammunition ( where the entire case assembly is either consumed when the round fires or whatever remains is ejected with the bullet ), so far, none of these have been successful enough to reach the civilian market and gain commercial success.

Many military strategists have attempted to encapsulate a successful strategy in a set of principles.

Many Little Italys, Chinatowns ( or Koreatowns and Japantowns ) and other ethnic neighbourhoods have become more middle-class in recent times, dominated by successful restaurant owners, family-owned stores and businessmen able to start up their own companies.

Many of the local towns compete in the highly successful leagues.

Many DBMSs also support the Open Database Connectivity API that supports a standard way for programmers to access the DBMS.

Many programmers have been labeled " great hackers ", but the specifics of who that label applies to is a matter of opinion.

Many Mesa programmers and developers left Xerox in 1985 ; some of them went to DEC Systems Research Center where they used their experience with Mesa in the design of Modula-2 +, and later of Modula-3.

Many professional programmers also work for consulting companies at client sites as contractors.

Many shareware developers are individual computer programmers who develop their own product.

Many programmers consider SSE2 to be " everything SSE should have been ", as SSE2 offers an orthogonal set of instructions for dealing with common data types.

Many of those surveyed said things like, " Mainly I contribute just to make it work for me ", and " programmers develop software to ' scratch an itch '".

Many programmers assume one level of memory.

Many programmers today might refer to C as low-level, as it lacks a large runtime-system ( no garbage collection, etc.

Many of the early users of PCs were mainframe programmers or users, who were accustomed to and liked the ISPF panel system.

Many subsequent engineers and programmers also came from HP.

Many early SNES programmers used the Apple IIGS as a SNES game development platform to write code on.

Many Info-ZIP programmers have also been involved in other projects closely related to the DEFLATE compression algorithm, such as the PNG image format and the zlib software library.

Many computer programmers often use the term boilerplate code.

Many of these aspects may be altered by programmers who specialize in these areas, however ( for example, strategy tables may be implemented by AI programmers ).

Many tools exist to assist programmers and make the calculator a powerful programming environment.

Many programmers have been influenced by the writings of Arthur C. Clarke, who said, " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Many modern MOM systems provide sophisticated message transformation ( or mapping ) tools which allow programmers to specify transformation rules applicable to a simple GUI drag-and-drop operation.

Many programmers like to mark the start of each line with space-asterisk-space, as follows, but that is not necessary.

Many programmers believe these languages sacrifice too much for rapid execution.

Many other utilities exist to convert latitude and longitude to locators, as this is a favorite hack for programmers who are also radio amateurs.

Many programmers prefer to address memory such that there is no distinction between code space and data space ( cf.

Many machine language programmers would experiment with null bytes in an attempt to make it harder for BASIC programmers to access their code and tamper with it.