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 is also one of the authors of Rog-O-Matic and Julia, a Turing test competitor in the Loebner Prize.
In 1994, while working at CMU on the Informedia Digital Library project, Mauldin created Lycos from 3 pages of code.
[citation needed] In August 2015, he became a member of the board of directors of Lycos, now owned by Suresh Reddy.
In addition to robot combat, they enjoy traveling via recreational vehicle and driving his Jeep Wrangler Sahara through the desert.