Zawinski was a major proponent of opening the source code of the Mozilla browser, but became disillusioned with the project when others decided to rewrite the code instead of incrementally improving it.

These “ signatures ” are of great relevance to LIGO ( Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory ), a multi-institution gravity-wave experiment for which Thorne has been a leading proponent — in 1984, he cofounded the LIGO Project ( the largest project ever funded by the NSF ) to discern and measure any fluctuations between two or more ' static ' points ; such fluctuations would be evidence of gravitational waves, as calculations describe.

He was an early proponent of space optical astronomy in general, and in particular of the project that became Hubble Space Telescope.

The main proponent of the scheme, Canberra engineer Ken Bilston, held a 2 percent share and was technical manager for the project.

This enables the project proponent to recover its investment, operating and maintenance expenses in the project.

This term has spread into a business context ; a project that has been " sidelined " is no longer a major concern or objective of the proponent company.

Cailliau later became a key proponent of the project and developed with Nicola Pellow the first web browser for the Mac OS operating system called MacWWW.

Following proposals for service expansions along the Georgetown line since at least 1990, a project to provide both Georgetown South Service Expansion and an Air Rail Link entered a streamlined environmental impact assessment process in early 2009 with Metrolinx now as its proponent.

Pauline Reilly was RAOU President and an enthusiastic proponent of the Atlas in the years leading up to the fieldwork phase of the project and she was subsequently Chair of the Atlas Committee which oversaw the project.

In December 2008, Metrolinx became the proponent of new EA that would simultaneously assess a combination of both Union Pearson AirLink's project and GO Transit's Georgetown South Service Expansion.

The EPBC Act comes into play when a person ( a ‘ proponent ') wants an action ( often called a ‘ proposal ’ or ‘ project ’) assessed for environmental impacts under the EPBC Act, he or she must refer the project to the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts ( Australia ).

The IAF looks for the following in a project it funds: innovative solutions ; creative use of community resources ; feasibility ; a diverse array of community voices in project development and execution ; substantial beneficiary engagement in ( a ) the identification of the problem addressed, ( b ) the approach chosen to solve it, ( c ) the design of the project, and ( d ) management and evaluation of activities ; partnerships with local government, the business community and other civil society organizations ; a potential for strengthening all participating organizations and their partnerships ; evidence of eventual sustainability ; counterpart contributions from beneficiaries and other sources as well as from the proponent ; the potential to generate learning ; measurable results ; evidence of enhanced capacity for self-governance.

An important proponent of this shift in thinking was Donald O. Hebb, who argued that " mind " is simply a name for processes in the head that control complex behavior, and that it is both necessary and possible to infer those processes from behavior Animals came to be seen as " goal seeking agents that acquire, store, retrieve, and internally process information at many levels of cognitive complexity .".

" Donald McGavran, a missionary in India who " coined the concept of ' people movements ' to Christ ," is credited as an early proponent of the kind of missionary work that underlies the Church Planting Movement, by focusing his missionary work on converting groups of people (" groups, tribes, villages, ethnic groups ") rather than individuals.

Llewellyn Harrison " Lew " Rockwell, Jr. ( born July 1, 1944 ) is an American libertarian political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman / CEO of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

The original designer, Larry Shinoda, came up with the Boss moniker as a way to pay homage to Bunkie Knudsen, the CEO at Ford and an outspoken proponent of the car's development.

Yitzhak Shamir was a dedicated proponent of Greater Israel and as Israeli Prime Minister gave the settler movement funding and Israeli governmental legitimisation.

Szálasi was a fanatical right-wing nationalist and a strong proponent of " Hungarism ," advocating the expansion of Hungary's territory back to the borders of Greater Hungary as it was prior to the Treaty of Trianon, which in 1920 codified the reduction in the country's area by 72 %.

For the party's leader Allal El Fassi, a proponent of " Greater Morocco ", Morocco's independence would not be complete without the liberation of all the territories that once were part of Morocco.

It was a leading proponent of Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, and according to Frank Starr, head of the Baltimore Sun ’ s Washington bureau, the foundation ’ s studies, " laid much of the groundwork for Bush administration thinking " about post-Soviet foreign policy.

Mutulu Shakur ( born Jeral Wayne Williams, August 8, 1950, Baltimore, Maryland ), is a former proponent of the Republic of New Afrika and a close friend of Geronimo Pratt.

He became a proponent of unification of the Maryland Agricultural College and the Baltimore professional schools into a single public University of Maryland, and he was instrumental in what became the Consolidation Act of 1920.

Lodge did not, however, object to the United States interfering in other nations ' affairs, and was in actuality a proponent of imperialism ( see Lodge Committee for further explanation ).

Domenici has been an avid proponent of nuclear power and has published two books on the subject: " A Brighter Tomorrow: Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy " ( Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004 ), which he wrote ; and " Advanced Nuclear Technologies — Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, U. S. Senate " ( Collingdale, Pennsylvania: D I A N E Publishing Company, 1999 ), which he edited.

Hastings is the chairman of the United States House Committee on Natural Resources and is a proponent of increasing domestic production of oil and gas, including drilling in the remote Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

As a member and later chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Tower was a strong proponent of modernizing the armed forces.

He served on the House Judiciary Committee and was the leading proponent of the successful 1846 effort to abolish capital punishment in Michigan.

As a member of the DNC's Rules Committee he was a proponent of adding other states besides Iowa and New Hampshire early on in the Presidential nominating calendar.

The National Child Labor Committee, or NCLC, is a private, non-profit organization in the United States that serves as a leading proponent for the national child labor reform movement.

He is a leading proponent of the idea of the right to the city, as well as a member of the Interim Committee for the emerging International Organization for a Participatory Society.

As a member of the D. C. Committee, Mathias was a proponent of establishing home rule in the District of Columbia.

He was assigned the Chairmanship of the U. S. Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, where he became the preeminent proponent of " home rule " for the District, effectively urging that the government of the District of Columbia be turned over to its majority of African-American citizens.

A proponent of a national canal system, in 1825 Colden was commissioned by the Common Council of New York City, during the last days of the construction of the Erie Canal, to write his Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals.

In association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, they were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Alexander du Toit, a South African geologist who was an early proponent of the theory of continental drift.

The project's main proponent was former United States Representative Richard Pombo, who was the House Resources Committee chair when in Congress and himself a member of a family with extensive Central Valley property holdings near the proposed freeway's path.

In the Parliament of 1862-63 he chaired the Appropriations Committee ( Bevillningsutskottet ), where he was a strong proponent of the principles of free trade, which he would remain throughout.

Michael I. Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who is a proponent of electronic voting and the examiner of electronic voting systems for Pennsylvania, stated " It's the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system.

The most influential proponent of the distinction was John Wallis, whose 1653 Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae stated " The rule is ... to express a future event without emotional overtones, one should say I shall, we shall, but you / he / she / they will ; conversely, for emphasis, willfulness, or insistence, one should say I / we will, but you / he / she / they shall ".

Heinrich Himmler, one of the most powerful Nazi leaders, became a strong proponent of the theory and he stated that if it were corrected and adjusted with new scientific findings it could very well be accepted as scientific work.

He is a proponent of gun ownership rights, and has stated that he is against abortion except in order to protect the life of the mother.

One proponent ( and the main sponsor ) of the bill John Kavanagh, stated that he “ couldn ’ t understand what would drive student loan up to tens of thousands of dollars .” The bill was meant to increase the incentives of students who actually want to go to college, so that they would have some “ skin in the game .”

Thomas Davenport, an early BPR proponent, stated that:

The proponent of Chagas disease, Dr. Saul Adler, stated that Darwin may have suffered both from Chagas disease and from " an innate or acquired neurosis ".

He was a leading proponent of the now-debunked theory known as " Rain follows the plow ", which stated that increased population and cultivation of the Great Plains would render the land lush and fertile.

Robert Nield, a retired Cambridge economics professor and a member of the 1968 Fulton civil service reform committee, has stated, in reference to civil sector reforms implemented by British PM Margaret Thatcher, a pioneer and strong proponent of NPM, " I cannot think of another instance where a modern democracy has systematically undone the system by which incorrupt public services were brought into being.

The remains of military storehouses dating to the appropriate period have been found under Fishbourne Roman Palace, a 1st century Roman villa near Chichester and, on the basis of this, and other archaeological evidence, archaeologist Barry Cunliffe, formerly a proponent of the Kent hypothesis, has stated that he was becoming persuaded by the arguments in favour of a South Coast landing.

Al-Waleed is considered a proponent for female emancipiation in the Saudi world, has financed her training and has stated on her graduation that he is " in full support of Saudi ladies working in all fields ".

In her concurrence to State v. Daniels, 40 P. 3d 611, 626 ( Utah 2002 ), she stated, “ I continue to be a proponent of independent state constitutional analysis on federalism grounds, believing we should use a primacy approach or dual analysis approach whenever possible .” In State v. Larocco, 794 P. 2d 460 ( Utah 1990 ), however, Justice Durham recognized the duality of the American system.

Rolling Stone magazine stated that she " is an active proponent of the V-Chip and served on the board of the PTC.