Jeremie Miller (born ) is the inventor of Jabber/XMPP technologies and was the primary developer of jabberd 1.0, the first XMPP server. He also wrote one of the first XML

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s in

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. He began working on

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in 1998.

Biography

Miller is from

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, and lives in

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. Miller began developing the software on his farm in

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. He attended

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where he studied computer and electrical design. He broke off his studies early in 1995 to join an Internet startup company. In May 2007, he was hired at

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to be technical lead for a project to create an open

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called

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. Miller co-founded a company called Singly in 2010, which announced the Locker Project in 2011 and TeleHash projects. Singly was acquired by Appcelerator in August 2013 on undisclosed terms.

References

External links

* , Robert McMillan, ''

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'', November 15, 2001
''The Locker Project: data for the people''
Tish Shute, ''Radar O'Reilly'', February 2011
''Creator of Instant Messaging Protocol to Launch App Platform for Your Life''
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