SCID: a severe congenital disease, a chess database, a database using meta-application, a diagnostic procedure, and an ID# from fiber optic technology

SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY is one kind of SCID -- being born without an effective immune system. This is what David Vetter, the original Bubble Boy, suffered from, forcing him to live his short life in a bubble, venturing out a couple of times in a suit made by NASA. Nowadays someone born with a SCID doesn't have to live in a sanitized bubble, they can give them bone marrow transplants.

SHANE'S CHESS INFORMATION DATABASE is another SCID. It is a nice way of gathering many different chess games played by chess masters and comparing them. It is available for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac operating systems. It is free and open source -- though apparently some of the code was stolen from a similar application, ChessDB.

STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEWS FOR DSM-IV (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is another SCID. This is a process developed for researchers to obtain a diagnosis of what mental disorders someone they are interviewing has. DSM-IV is the major classification system used across the United States, and its classifications are recognized by Psychologists, Biologists, Sociologists and other Ologists.

SOURCE CODE IN DATABASE is an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment (an application made for the development of other applications) that uses a database to store bundles of pre-packaged code for the coder who uses it.

Finally, SCID is a SONET CARRIER IDENTIFICATION, SONET being the protocol by which data is decoded, through pulses of light carried on fiber optic cable, and the carrier (probably) being a telecom. For instance, Verizon will provide you with some SCID codes if you buy service from them using SONET.