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WIDE AREA INFORMATION SERVERS

Specialty Definition: WIDE AREA INFORMATION SERVERS

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Computing

Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) A distributed information retrieval system. WAIS is supported by Apple Computer, Thinking Machines and Dow Jones. Clients are able to retrieve documents using keywords. The search returns a list of documents, ranked according to the frequency of occurrence of the keyword(s) used in the search. The client can retrieve text or multimedia documents stored on the server. WAIS offers simple natural language input, indexed searching for fast retrieval, and a "relevance feedback" mechanism which allows the results of initial searches to influence future searches. It uses the ANSI Z39.50 service. Public domain implementations are available. Other information retrieval systems include archie, Gopher, Prospero, and World-Wide Web. Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.infosystems.wais. Telnet (telnet://sunsite.unc.edu) (1995-03-13). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: WIDE AREA INFORMATION SERVERS

Specialty definitions using "WIDE AREA INFORMATION SERVERS": WAIS. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: WIDE AREA INFORMATION SERVERS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0049 0044 0045      0041 0052 0045 0041      0049 004E 0046 004F 0052 004D 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E      0053 0045 0052 0056 0045 0052 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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