Midas (disambiguation)

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Midas may refer to:

• Midas, King of Pessinus, Phrygia
• European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS), a politically independent, non-profit association for minority press
• 1981 Midas, an asteroid discovered in 1973
• Midas formula, a financial-analysis formula
• Midas List, an annual list of dealmakers in high-tech and life science
• Midas, a core-banking solution from Misys International Banking systems
• Midas (Band), an indie band based in Stourbridge, UK
• "Midas Touch", a single by Midnight Star
• MIDAS, a military satellite subsumed into RM-81 Agena
• Midas (fictional planet), in the Colony Wars franchise
• Midas Cars, a British car make

Companies:

• MIDAS Trial, a randomized controlled trial for drugs and alcohol misuse
• Midas Interactive Entertainment, a console games publisher
• Midas Consoles, a manufacturer of audio consoles
• Midas (automotive service), a chain of automotive service centers

Abbreviations:

• Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling, a distributed network of traffic sensors
• Mixed data sampling, an econometric regression or filtering method
• Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme, a training and registration scheme for drivers of minibuses
• Multitier Distributed Application Services Suite, a COM-based software technology now known as DataSnap
• Missile Defense Alarm System, an orbiting American early-warning missile-launch detection system that functioned from 1960 to 1966
• Maximum Integrated Data Acquisition System, an open source data acquisition system used in particle and nuclear physics
• Metal Ion Dependent Adhesion Site