Michael Loren Mauldin | |
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| Born | March 23, 1959 Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Education | Midland High School |
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| Title | Founder of Lycos |
| Spouse | Debbie |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Doctoral advisor | Jaime Carbonell |
Michael Loren "Fuzzy" Mauldin (/ˈmɔːldən/) (born March 23, 1959) is an American retired computer scientist and the inventor of the Lycos web search engine.
He has written 2 books, 10 refereed papers, and several technical reports on natural-language processing, 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.
Verbot, a defunct chatbot program, is based on Mauldin's work.
Mauldin is an active competitor in the Robot Fighting League.