Proper noun
Initialism of West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Initialism of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
(computing) Initialism of Wide Area Information Servers.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgIn 1992, the presidential campaign of Ross Perot used WAIS as a campaign wide information system, connecting the field offices to the national office. Source: Internet
He was at WAIS Divide during the most recent field season, when the drill reached a bottom depth of 2,560 meters. Source: Internet
François Schiettecatte left Human Genome Project at Johns Hopkins Hospital and started FS-Consult and developed his own variant of WAIS which eventually became ScienceServer, which was later sold to Elsevier Science. Source: Internet
Inspired by the WAIS project on full text databases and emerging SGML projects Z39.50 version 2 or Z39.50:1992 was released. Source: Internet
It was a WAIS server like any other information source but contained information about the other WAIS servers on the Internet. Source: Internet
Later, Perot Systems adopted WAIS to better access the information in its corporate databases. Source: Internet