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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.
Michael Loren "Fuzzy" Mauldin is an American retired computer scientist and the inventor of the Lycos web search engine.
Michael Loren Mauldin from Carnegie Mellon University developed one of Lycos’s oldest search engines. The name of the search engine is derived from Lycosidae, a Latin name for a family of wolf spiders.
Michael Loren “Fuzzy” Mauldin is a retired computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his work on web search engines and virtual characters. He is credited as the inventor of the Lycos web search engine, which he developed while a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1990s.
Lycos is a university spin-off that began in May 1994 as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Lycos Inc. was formed with approximately US$2 million in venture capital funding from CMGI.
In 1994, Michael Loren Mauldin, founder of Lycos, Inc., developed a prototype chatbot, Julia, which competed in the internationally known Turing test, for the coveted Loebner Prize. The Turing test matches computer scientist judges against machines to see if they can distinguish a computer from a real human.
Michael Loren Mauldin is Former Board Member at Lycos Internet Ltd. See Michael Loren Mauldin's compensation, career history, education, & memberships.
