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Christopher "Monty" Montgomery (born June 6, 1972) is an American programmer. He is the original creator of the Ogg Free Software container format and the Vorbis audio codec and others, and the founder of The Xiph.Org Foundation, which promotes public domain multimedia codecs. He uses ''xiphmont'' as an online pseudonym.
He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a A fond farewell to Red Hat, an exciting hello to Mozilla
/ref> his almost immediate switch to Mozilla. Work on Daala will be an important part of his work there. Montgomery was the evening keynote at the Ohio LinuxFest in September 2010.
Montgomery's blog
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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 {{US-compu-bio-stub
Christopher "Monty" Montgomery (born June 6, 1972) is an American programmer. He is the original creator of the Ogg Free Software container format and the Vorbis audio codec and others, and the founder of The Xiph.Org Foundation, which promotes public domain multimedia codecs. He uses ''xiphmont'' as an online pseudonym.
He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.Eng.
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Australia
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degree in computer engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
A multimedia programmer, free software advocate and musician, Monty resides in the Boston area. He previously worked for Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide.
Red Hat has become ass ...
on improving the quality of the Ogg Theora format and decoders. In October 2013, he announced/ref> his almost immediate switch to Mozilla. Work on Daala will be an important part of his work there. Montgomery was the evening keynote at the Ohio LinuxFest in September 2010.
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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 {{US-compu-bio-stub