With the advent of Z39. 50: 1992, the termination of support for the free WAIS from Thinking Machines and the establishment of WAIS Inc as a commercial venture, the U. S. National Science Foundation funded CNIDR to create a clearinghouse of information related to Internet search and discovery systems and to promote open source and standards.

Two of the developers of WAIS, Brewster Kahle and Harry Morris, left Thinking Machines to found WAIS Inc in Menlo Park, California with Bruce Gilliat.

WAIS Inc. was originally developed as a joint project between Apple Computer, Peat Markwick, Dow Jones, and Thinking Machines.

Following the sale, Margaret St. Pierre left WAIS Inc to start Blue Angel Technologies.

Inspired by the WAIS project on full text databases and emerging SGML projects Z39. 50 version 2 or Z39. 50: 1992 was released.

It was a WAIS server like any other information source but contained information about the other WAIS servers on the 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.

Mosaic was based on the libwww library and thus supported a wide variety of internet protocols included in the library: Archie, FTP, gopher, HTTP, NNTP, telnet, WAIS.

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ( WAIS ) was developed first in 1939 and then called the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test.

The original WAIS ( Form I ) was published in February 1955 by David Wechsler, as a revision of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale.

Because the Wechsler tests included non-verbal items ( known as performance scales ) as well as verbal items for all test-takers, and because the 1960 form of Lewis Terman's Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales was less carefully developed than previous versions, Form I of the WAIS surpassed the Stanford-Binet tests in popularity by the 1960s.

The WAIS was initially created as a revision of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale ( WBIS ), which was a battery of tests published by Wechsler in 1939.

The WAIS was first released in February 1955 by David Wechsler.

The WAIS-R, a revised form of the WAIS, was released in 1981 and consisted of six verbal and five performance subtests.

The WAIS-III, a subsequent revision of the WAIS and the WAIS-R, was released in 1997.

The Block Design test was adapted by David Wechsler into the WAIS ( Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ) from the Kohs Block Design test developed in 1923 at Stanford University by Samuel Calmin Kohs ( 1890 – 1984 ).

Wide Area Information Servers or WAIS is a client – server text searching system that uses the ANSI Standard Z39. 50 Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Library Applications " ( Z39. 50: 1988 ) to search index databases on remote computers.

WAIS clients were developed for various operating systems and windowing systems including Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, NeXT, X Window, GNU-Emacs, and character terminals < ref >.

This model of searching for ( WAIS ) servers to search became the role model for GILS and Peter Deutsch's WHOIS ++ distributed white pages directory.

Public WAIS is often used as a full text search engine for individual Internet Gopher servers, supplementing the popular Veronica system which only searches the menu titles of Gopher sites.

The WAIS protocol is influenced largely by the z39. 50 protocol designed for networking library catalogs.

Examples of neuropsychological tests include: the Wechsler Adult Memory Scale ( WMS ), the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ( WAIS ), and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children ( WISC ).

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ( WAIS Divide ) Ice Core Drilling Project began drilling over the 2005 and 2006 seasons, drilling ice cores up to the depth of 300 m for the purposes of gas collection, other chemical applications, and to test the site for use with the Deep Ice Sheet Coring ( DISC ) Drill.

He developed well-known intelligence scales, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale ( WAIS ) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children ( WISC ).

The quantitative measure of intelligence for the House-tree-person has been shown to highly correlate with the WAIS and other well-established intelligence tests.

It is estimated that the volume of the Antarctic ice sheet is about 25. 4 million km < sup > 3 </ sup >, and the WAIS contains just under 10 % of this, or 2. 2 million km < sup > 3 </ sup >.

Gopher combines document hierarchies with collections of services, including WAIS, the Archie and Veronica search engines, and gateways to other information systems such as FTP and Usenet.

WAIS did not adhere to either the standard or its OSI framework ( adopting instead TCP / IP ) but created a unique protocol inspired by Z39. 50: 1988.

The WAIS protocol and servers were primarily promoted by Thinking Machines Corporation ( TMC ) of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

TMC produced WAIS servers which ran on their massively parallel CM-2 ( Connection Machine ) and SPARC-based CM-5 MP supercomputers.

TMC, however, released a free open source version of WAIS to run on Unix in 1991.

CNIDR created a new freely available open-source WAIS.

Inspired also by WAIS, especially its " Directory of Servers ", Eliot Christian of USGS envisioned GILS: Government Information Locator Service.

When one would create a WAIS server with the TMC WAIS code it would create a special kind of record containing metadata and some common words to describe the content of the index.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known as the Atari 5200, is a video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc. as a higher end complementary console for the popular Atari 2600.

The 5200 was based on Atari Inc .' s existing 400 / 800 computers and the internal hardware was almost identical, although software was not directly compatible between the two systems.

In its prototype stage, the Atari 5200 was originally called the " Atari Video System X-Advanced Video Computer System ", and was codenamed " Pam " after a female employee at Atari Inc.

Atari Inc. released the Pro-Line Trak-Ball controller for the system, which was used primarily for gaming titles such as Centipede or Missile Command.

The 7800 had originally been designed to replace Atari Inc .' s Atari 5200 in 1984, but was temporarily shelved due to the sale of the company after the video game crash.

The Atari 7800 ProSystem was the first game system from Atari Inc. designed by an outside company, General Computer Corporation ( GCC ).

The Lynx was the second handheld game with the Atari name to actually be produced, the first was Atari Inc .' s handheld electronic game Touch Me.

In 2007 Coastel was merged with Petrocom and SOLA Communications to form Broadpoint Inc. and the network was converted to GSM.

A truck trailer refrigerator operating from the waste heat of a tractor's diesel exhaust was demonstrated by NRG Solutions, Inc. NRG developed a hydronic ammonia gas heat exchanger and vaporizer, the two essential new, not commercially available components of a waste heat driven refrigerator.

COCONET, a BBS system made by Coconut Computing, Inc., was released in 1988 and only supported a GUI interface ( no text interface was available ), and worked in EGA / VGA graphics mode, which made it stand out from the text-based BBS systems.

On July 14, 2005, Tom Biscardi, a long-time Bigfoot enthusiast and CEO of Searching for Bigfoot Inc., appeared on the Coast to Coast AM paranormal radio show and announced that he was " 98 % sure that his group will be able to capture a Bigfoot which they have been tracking in the Happy Camp, California area.

Philippe Kahn was at all times Chairman, President, and CEO of Borland Inc. from its inception in 1983 until he left in 1995.

In March 1999, dBase was sold to KSoft, Inc. which was soon renamed to dBASE Inc. ( In 2004 dBASE Inc. was renamed to dataBased Intelligence, Inc .).