Michael Mauldin, Adjunct RCS

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Positions

• Adjunct Research Computer Scientist at Language Technology Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Founder of Lycos, Inc., the Internet Search Engine he created.
• Former Independent director of Lycos., the search engine company.
• Former director of Conversive, Inc., a company dedicated to creating Self-Animated Computer Generated Human Characters.
• Former Vice President, Robot Club & Grille, a restaurant with a robotic theme that holds regular robot fighting competitions.

Profiles

• Curriculum Vitae of Michael Mauldin
• Biography of Michael Mauldin
• Profile at Rice University of Michael Mauldin
• Profile at CMU of Michael Mauldin

Publications

• 1997 Lycos: Design choices in an Internet search service (HTML) IEEE Expert, Jan/Feb 1997.
  
• 1995 Measuring the Web with Lycos (HTML), WWW-95. Updated for November 95 (HTML).
• 1994 "Chatterbots" Paper (HTML), AAAI-94.
• 1994 Web Agent Related Research at the CMT (HTML), ACM-SIGNIDR-V.
• 1993 The SHOGUN system used for MUC-5 (HTML abstract), MUC-5.
• 1991 Retrieval Performance in Ferret (HTML), ACM-SIGIR-91.
• 1989 An Expert Critiquer for Propulsion Gear Design (HTML), HFS-89.
• 1984 Maintaining Diversity in Genetic Search (HTML), AAAI-84.
• 1984 Rog-O-Matic: A Belligerent Expert System (HTML), CSCSI-84.

Code

• Version 3.6 of Rogue in C for Unix
• Version 5.3 of Rogue in C for Unix
• Version 14 of Rog-O-Matic in C for Unix

Patents

• 10-Nov-1998 US 5,748,954 The Lycos spider patent
  "Method for searching a queued and ranked constructed catalog of files stored on a network"
  
  
• 5-May-1998 US 5,835,667 The Informedia digital library patent
  "Method and apparatus for creating a searchable digital video library and a system and method of using such a library"
  
  
• 2-Sep-1997 US 5,664,227 Informedia audio/video skimming patent
  "System and method for skimming digital audio/video data"
  
  
• 7-Aug-2007 US 7,253,817 The Virtual Personalities patent
  "Virtual Human Interface for Conducting Surveys"

Web Archives

• Syllabus, homework and solutions from the 1996 Intro to Artificial Intelligence course that I taught with Dr. Eric Nyberg.
• Chatterbot files, documents and publications relating to Julia, the TinyMUD Chatterbot
• Historical files from the origin of the Lycos search engine