If you are over the age of 30, you might remember LYCOS, one of the first search engines on the web. Its creator, Michael L. Mauldin, is now coming back to the American company to serve as an Independent Director on the board, w.e.f. August 24, 2015.
In his previous outing Mauldin, not only founded LYCOS in 1994 but also served as the Chief Scientist of the search engine company. He developed the proprietary Lycos Search Engine while working on the Informedia Digital Library project at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also former director of Conversive, Inc., an Artificial Intelligence Software company based in Malibu, California.
“We are delighted to welcome the creator of LYCOS on to the company board. This appointment brings solid value to the company in terms of broad basing the board composition. More importantly this provides us access to Michael’s experience and deep insights in the technology domain.” said Suresh Reddy, Chairman & CEO of LYCOS.
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Since leaving LYCOS in 1998, Mauldin has written two books, ten refereed papers and several technical reports on natural language, autonomous information agents, information retrieval and expert systems. He is also one of the authors of Rog-O-Matic and Julia.
