Michael Loren Mauldin
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Michael "Fuzzy" L. Mauldin was the founder of the Lycos Web Search Engine company. He developed the Lycos Search Engine while working on the Informedia Digital Library project at Carnegie Mellon University.
He received his bachelor's degree from Rice University in 1981. From Carnegie Mellon University, he received his master's degree in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1989.
Dr. Mauldin has written two books, 10 refereed papers and several technical reports on natural language, autonomous information agents, information retrieval and expert systems. He is also one of the authors of Rog-O-Matic and Julia (a Turing test competitor in the Loebner Prize.
Michael Mauldin is Director of Conversive, Inc. an Artificial Intelligence Software company based in Malibu, California. The Verbot program is based on Dr. Mauldin's early work in Natural Language Processing and Chatterbots.
Fuzzy and his family are known as Team Toad in Robot Combat, having competed at Battlebots, NERC and RFL events between 2000 and 2006. Their robot "Ice Cube" is the 2006 RFL National Middleweight Champion.
