Michael L. Mauldin

Michael Loren Mauldin, alias "Fuzzy," is a research computer scientist at the Center for Machine Translation of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. This home page contains information about him, ways to contact him, and how to obtain his software and publications.

Web Launching Points

• My current hotlist on the Fuzine server.
• Search 2.95 million WWW documents, see the Lycos Home Page.
• Today's My list of 6898 HTTP servers found by Lycos (700K html).
• National Enquirer Headlines.
• Today's Custom Made Excuses.
• My what's new collection.
• NCSA's what's new collection.
• My list of online publications.
• My flying page (a collection of Aviation Info).

Current Projects

• Informedia, the realization of full content digital video, audio and text libraries.
• Lycos, a research program in providing information retrieval and discovery in the WWW (CMU people can try the Fulcrum search engine on the Lycos Catalog).
• Scout, full-text information storage and retrieval with approximate matching.
• Julia, attempting to pass the Turing test.

Past Projects

• Tipster, data extraction for DARPA, under subcontract to General Electric.
• Ferret, conceptual information retrieval (click here for a paper about Ferret).

Contact Information

• Phone numbers and addresses.
• Maps to my office, my house, the campus, and the airport.
• Latest finger plan file.
• My photo (207k).
• Obligatory driver's license photo (67k).

Software Repository

Michael Mauldin currently maintains an anonymous FTP directory on NL.CS.CMU.EDU in directory /usr/mlm/ftp.
• Software index, in HTML format, describes contents of FTP directory.
• Icon directory (loads 92 inlined images, so have patience).
• FBM 1.2 image process package.
• Maas-Neotek TinyMUD robot code, subset of Julia.
• Japanese lexicon, created by CMU for Tipster. Other Tipster resources are available in the Tipster FTP directory

Publications

• 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.
• Postscript versions of research papers.
• My vita, bio, and short bio.

Personal information

• Married to Michelle Kapral Mauldin (click here for photo, 132k).
• Click here for family photo (157k).
• Two sons, Gregory (101k) and Daniel (190k).
• Geek Code: GCSd(?)po---XP++V--c+++lu+++tv+b+++e++++m+s/+n---h----fg+wt++ry+(?)

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