Cudos may refer to: *

Cudos, Gironde Cudos (; oc-gascon, Cudòs) is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Gironde department The following is a list of the 535 communes of the Gironde department of France. The co ...

, a town in France *

Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems The Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (or CUDOS) was a collaboration of Australian and international researchers in optical science and photonics technology. CUDOS is an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence a ...

or CUDOS, an Australian research consortium * Mertonian norms, principles of modern science in Robert K. Merton's 1973 work ''The Normative Structure of Science'' from which were later derived the 'CUDOS' principles (the definition varies between sources: these are either the original 4 rearranged to make a mnemonic, or 5 with the addition of 'originality' and shortening of 'organized scepticism' to 'scepticism').