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 parsers in JavaScript. He began working on Jabber in 1998. Biography Miller is from Cascade, Iowa, and lives in Denver, Colorado. Miller began developing the software on his farm in Iowa. He attended Iowa State University 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 to be technical lead for a project to create an open search engine called Wikia Search. 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, 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