Michael Loren Mauldin
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Michael "Fuzzy" Loren Mauldin is the founder of the Lycos Internet search engine company. He developed the Lycos Search Engine while working on the Informedia Digital Library project at Carnegie Mellon University. He is Director of Conversive, Inc. an Artificial Intelligence Software company based in Malibu, California.
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. His Ph.D. advisor was Dr. Jaime Carbonell.
Dr. Mauldin has written two books, ten 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).
The Verbot program is based on Dr. Mauldin's early work in natural language processing and Chatterbots.
Mauldin 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.
