Glossary - W

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• W1MX — A high-frequency radio club
• W3C — World Wide Web Consortium
• WAG — Women's Advisory Group
• WAUS — Windows Automatic Update Service (offered by Information Systems and Technology)
• WAYF - Where Are You From? — A service to guide a user to his or her Identity Provider.
• WBWT — Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel (in Aero-Astro)
• WebAuth — One of the authentication servers used by MIT Touchstone is based on Stanford's WebAuth package.
• WebSIS — Web-(based) Student Information System
• WEL — World Economy Laboratory (Economics)
• WGR — Working Group Recycling (Committee)
• WGS — Women's and Gender Studies
• WGSSI — Working Group on Support Staff Issues
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Whole Disk Encryption — Software that encrypts everything on a user’s hard drive.
• WI — Whitehead Institute
• WICGR — Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research
• wikis.mit.edu — wikis.mit.edu is MIT's central wiki server. The wiki service running on wikis.mit.edu is based on Atlassian's Confluence enterprise wiki application, and is available to the entire MIT community.
• WILG — Women's Independent Living Group
• win.mit.edu — MIT's central Windows domain
• WinAthena — A legacy name for some computers in the win.mit.edu domain. This term should no longer be used as it has no well-defined meaning.
• WISP — Written Information Security Program
• WMBR — MIT FM Radio Station - "Walker Memorial Basement Radio"
• WSRI — Web Science Research Initiative
• WTBS — Former call letters of WMBR Radio prior to 1979, for "Technology Broadcasting System." Ted Turner acquired the WTBS call letters.
• WWW — World Wide Web