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Christopher "Monty" Montgomery (born June 6, 1972) is an American programmer and engineer. He is the original creator of the

Ogg Ogg is a digital multimedia container format designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of digital multimedia. It is maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation and is free and open, unrestricted by software patents. Its name is ...

Free Software container format and the

Vorbis Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The project produces an audio coding format and software reference encoder/decoder ( codec) for lossy audio compression, libvorbis. Vorbis is most comm ...

audio codec An audio codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio. In software, an audio codec is a computer program implementing an algorithm that compresses and decompres ...

and others, and the founder of The Xiph.Org Foundation, which promotes

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multimedia

codecs A codec is a computer hardware or software component that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. ''Codec'' is a portmanteau of coder/decoder. In electronic communications, an endec is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder o ...

. He uses ''xiphmont'' as an online

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. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the

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and a M.Eng. degree in

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from the

Tokyo Institute of Technology The Tokyo Institute of Technology () was a public university in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. It merged with Tokyo Medical and Dental University to form the Institute of Science Tokyo on 1 October 2024. The Tokyo Institute of Technology was a De ...

. A

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

programmer,

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advocate and musician, Monty resides in the

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

area. He previously worked for

Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North ...

on improving the quality of the Ogg

Theora Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It was developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg contai ...

format and decoders. In October 2013, he announcedA fond farewell to Red Hat, an exciting hello to Mozilla
/ref> his almost immediate switch to

Mozilla Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, publishes and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting free software and open standards. The community is supported institution ...

. Work on Daala will be an important part of his work there. Montgomery was the evening keynote at the Ohio LinuxFest in September 2010.

References

External links

Montgomery's blog
on Dreamwidth
Open codec pioneer leaves Red Hat, joins Mozilla to work on next-generation video codec
Gigaom, October 15, 2013
Videos produced by Chris Montgomery to spread techie-level knowledge about digital media
Living people 1972 births Xiph.Org projects {{US-compu-bio-stub