AIS

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The Ais were a Native American tribe living on the Atlantic coast of Florida, United States which had completely disappeared by the mid-18th Century.

AIS is a three-letter abbreviation that may mean:

Among organizations:

• Atlanta International School, a private school located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Advanced Info Service, Thailand's largest GSM mobile phone operator
• Aeronautical Information Service
• Alltel Information Services
• American International School, a name common to several schools in a variety of countries
• Amity International School, a group of schools found in India
• Armée islamique du salut (Islamic Salvation Army), the former military wing of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria
• Association for Information Systems, an international professional organization
• Australian Information Service, a former Australian governmental organization, disbanded in 1986
• Australian Institute of Sport, an Australian educational institution headquartered in Canberra

In software and technology:

• Account Information Security, a VISA security program intended to protect the account information of credit card holders
• Accounting information system, the system of records a business keeps to maintain its accounting system
• Alarm indication signal, a signal transmitted by a system that is part of a communications link to let the receiver know that some part of the link has failed. Some types of AIS signals are:
  • Alarm indication signal path (AIS-P)
  • Alarm indication signal line (AIS-L)
• Application Interface Specification, a technical specification defined by the Service Availability Forum
• Artificial Immune System
• Automated Intercept System, a telecommunications system that typically handles the automated error messages in the public telephone system (e.g. "The number you have reached has been disconnected...")
• Automatic Identification System, a navigation and surveillance system capable of providing information about a ship to others and to coastal authorities automatically

In biology:

• Androgen insensitivity syndrome
• Automated information system

Among other uses:

• Academic intervention services
• Active Isolated Stretching