Michael Loren Mauldin

Michael Loren "Fuzzy" Mauldin () (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. Provided by Wikipedia