Education
Rice University; Carnegie Mellon University.
Rice University; Carnegie Mellon University.
He developed the Lycos Search Engine while working on the Informedia Digital Library project at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also director of Conversive, Incorporated. an Artificial Intelligence Software company based in Malibu, California. He was born on March 23, 1959 in Dallas, Texas to Jimmie Alton Mauldin and Marilyn Jean Taylor.
He received his bachelor"s degree from Rice University in 1981.
From Carnegie Mellon University, he received his master"s degree in 1983 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1989. His Doctor of Philosophy advisor was Jaime Carbonell.
Doctor Mauldin has written two books, ten refereed papers and several technical reports on natural language, autonomous information agents, information retrieval and expert systems The Verbot program is based on Doctor Mauldin"s early work in natural language processing and Chatterbots.
He is an active competitor in the Robot Fighting League and has been involved with Robot Combat for over a decade.
In August 2015, he returned back to Lycos as an Independent Director.