Michael Loren "Fuzzy" Mauldin () (born March 23, 1959) is a 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.