Chris Montgomery
Christopher "Monty"[1] Montgomery (born June 6, 1972[2] [3] ) is an American programmer and engineer. 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. degree in computer engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.[4]
A multimedia programmer, free software advocate and musician,[5] Monty resides in the Boston area. He previously worked for Red Hat on improving the quality of the Ogg Theora format and decoders. In October 2013, he announced[6] his almost immediate switch to Mozilla. Work on Daala will be an important part of his work there.[needs update ]
Montgomery was the evening keynote at the Ohio LinuxFest in September 2010.
References
[edit ]- ^ "Interview with xiphmont". Archived from the original on 2011年06月12日.
- ^ "xiphmont - Profile". xiphmont.livejournal.com. Archived from the original on 2011年07月19日. Retrieved 2017年01月13日.
- ^ "Ogg Vorbis: Competition for MP3". Tonspion. Archived from the original on 2018年01月20日.
- ^ Valin, J. M.; Terriberry, T. B.; Montgomery, C.; Maxwell, G. (2010年01月01日). "A High-Quality Speech and Audio Codec With Less Than 10-ms Delay". IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. 18 (1): 58–67. arXiv:1602.05526 . doi:10.1109/TASL.2009.2023186. ISSN 1558-7916. S2CID 11516136.
- ^ Interview with Montgomery Archived 2011年07月08日 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ A fond farewell to Red Hat, an exciting hello to Mozilla Archived at the Wayback Machine (archived 30 April 2017)
External links
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- Montgomery's blog on Dreamwidth
- Open codec pioneer leaves Red Hat, joins Mozilla to work on next-generation video codec Archived 2014年03月29日 at the Wayback Machine Gigaom, October 15, 2013
- Videos produced by Chris Montgomery to spread techie-level knowledge about digital media
