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
parser
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s in
JavaScript
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. He began working on
Jabber
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* The original name of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), the open technology for instant messaging and presence.
* Jabber.org, the public, free instant messaging and presence service based on XMPP.
* Jabber ...
in 1998.
Biography
Miller is from
Cascade, Iowa
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, and lives in
Denver, Colorado
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.
Miller began developing the software on his farm in
Iowa
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. He attended
Iowa State University
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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
Wikia
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to be technical lead for a project to create an open
search engine
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called
Wikia Search
Wikia Search was a short-lived free and open-source web search engine launched by Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting company founded in late 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.
Wikia Search followed other experiments by Wikia into search eng ...
.
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, ''
Linux Magazine
''Linux Magazine'' is an international magazine for Linux software enthusiasts and professionals. It is published by the former Linux New Media division of the German media company Medialinx AG.
The magazine was first published in German in 199 ...
'', 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'' Marshall Kirkpatrick, February 3, 2011
American computer programmers
1975 births
Living people
People from Iowa
People from Cascade, Iowa
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