WAIS
Americannoun
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In a seminal paper published in 1968, Mercer proposed that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, known in scientific circles as WAIS, was vulnerable to collapse.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 31, 2016
In the late eighties, while working at Thinking Machines, he developed Wide Area Information Servers, or WAIS, a protocol for searching, navigating, and publishing on the Internet.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 19, 2015
Additional services that may be offered include: WAIS: Wide-area Information Server; a program that can search dozens of databases in one search.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
Developed by researchers at the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, the World-Wide Web is somewhat similar to a WAIS.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
In a WAIS, the user sees only one interface — the program worries about how to access information on dozens, even hundreds, of different databases.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
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