Midas (disambiguation)
Midas is a figure from Greek mythology. It may also refer to:
Finance
- Midas formula, a financial-analysis formula
- Midas (banking system), a core-banking solution from Misys International Banking systems
- Midas List, an annual list of dealmakers in high-tech and life science
Film, TV and theatre
- Midas (TV series), a 2011 South Korean TV series
- Midas (Shelley play), an 1820 play by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Midas (Lyly play), an Elizabethan stage play by John Lyly
- Midas, a rich patron of the arts in the operetta Die schöne Galathée, by Franz von Suppé
Music
- Midas (English band), an English indie rock band
- Midas (Japanese band), a Japanese progressive rock band
- Midas (DJs), a British happy hardcore duo
Companies
- Midas Fine Art Cheeses, an artisan producer of vegan cheeses
- 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
- Midas Cars, a British car manufacturer
Places
- United States
- Midas, California, in Placer County, California
- Midas, Nevada, a ghost town in Elko County, Nevada
Other
- 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 (fictional planet), in the Colony Wars franchise
- Midas Touch, originally Midas Touch Golden Elixir, a beer produced by Dogfish Head Brewery
- MidasWWW, one of the first web browsers
- Midas, NATO reporting name for Ilyushin Il-78 aerial refueling tanker
- MIDAS (operating system) (Microsoft Interrupt Driven Asynchronous System), an operating system designed by Marc McDonald of Microsoft in 1979
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
- MiDAS, the Missile Defense Alarm System, an American early-warning missile-launch detection system functioning from 1960 to 1966
- Maximum Integrated Data Acquisition System, an open source data acquisition system used in particle and nuclear physics
- Multics Intrusion Detection and Alerting System, see Intrusion detection system
- Migraine Disability Assessment Test
- Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System
- Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agricultural Systems - United States initiative by the USDA is to improve the delivery of the Farm Services Agency's farm program benefits and services through the re-engineering of farm programs business processes and the adoption of enhanced and modernized information technology.
See also
- The Midas Touch (disambiguation)