Jeremie Miller (born ) is an

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and

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best known for his role in the development of

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and the release of jabberd, an early implementation of an

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server, in 1999. His work contributed to the standardization of the

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(XMPP) by the

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in 2004, and variations of XMPP have since been implemented on

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, and

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. In 2007, Miller became the technical lead for

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, an open-source

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initiative. He later co-founded Singly, Inc. in 2010, which introduced Telehash and Locker. The company was later acquired by

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in 2013. Currently, Miller sits on the

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for

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, a social media platform.

Biography

Miller is from

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, and lives in

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. Miller began developing 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. He began working on Jabber in 1998, and later released jabberd, the first implementation of an XMPP server, on January 4, 1999. He also wrote one of the first XML

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s in

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. The release of jabberd 1.0 in May 2000, including protocols for real-time XML streaming by Jeremie Miller and the

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, were the basis for XMPP when it was standardized by the

in RFC 3920 and RFC 3921 during October 2004. Variations of XMPP based on Miller's work have since been adopted by

, and

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. In May 2007, he was hired at

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to be technical lead for a project to create an open

called

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

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''
Marshall Kirkpatrick, February 3, 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Jeremie American computer programmers 1975 births Living people People from Iowa People from Cascade, Iowa