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Hugo Haas

I am W3C's Web Services Activity Lead, i.e. I am in charge of the standardization of Web services technologies at W3C.

I have worked on the design of SOAP 1.2, and now work on WSDL 2.0 and WS-Addressing 1.0.

My other functions other than Web Services Activity Lead are:

• Team contact for the Web Services Addressing Working Group.
• Team contact for the Web Services Description Working Group.
• Team contact for the Web Services Coordination Group.
• Technical contact with WS-I.
• Project coordinator of the EC FP6 project Web Services and Semantics (WS2).

Previously, I have worked as a Team contact for the XML Protocol Working Group, from October 2000 until March 2002, and for the Web Services Architecture Working Group from January 2002 until February 2004. Before that, I was part of the Systems Team: I was the W3C Webmaster from June 1999 until October 2000.

I wrote the second version of the W3C Link Checker, but no longer maintain it. Please refer to the W3C Link Checker documentation.

A more complete biography is available on the W3C People page.

Contact information

Press: if you are a journalist, please see the W3C press contact information for details.

Other contact information has been removed (read why).

Where am I based?

After having worked from June 1999 until August 2002 in building NE43 of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, I am now based in Paris, France, working for ERCIM since January 2003, after having worked for INRIA.

Useful pointer: Paris's time zone information.

Presentations

Upcoming presentations

Check the complete list of upcoming W3C presentations.

Past presentations

• 2006-05-25: Web Services: Towards the Next Steps at WWW2006, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 2006-03-06: WS2 seminar: Using Web services: from infrastructure to semantics, Paris, France
• 2005-11-15: Keynote at the 2005 IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2005), Växjö, Sweden: Reconciling Web Services and REST Services
• 2005-11-14: Tutorial on Web services with Charlton Barreto, at the 2005 IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2005), Växjö, Sweden
• 2005-07-12: Web Services, Semantics And Standardization: An Overview at the Concertation Meeting of the FP6 Projects on Software Technologies, Brussels, Belgium
• 2005-05-26: The messaging framework for Web services: SOAP 1.2, MTOM and Web Services Addressing 1.0 at XTech 2005, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2005-05-11: Foundations And Future Directions of Web Services at the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005), Chiba, Japan
• 2004-11-25: Standardisation de l'infrastructure des services Web au W3C at Forum Intégration, Paris, France
• 2004-11-17: WSDL 2.0: what's new? at XML 2004, Washington, DC, USA
• 2004-06-25: Presentation on W3C and W3C's Web services work at Bouygues Telecom in Vélizy, France: Développement et Standardisation des Technologies Services Web
• 20 May 2004: XML Security: Signature, Encryption, and Key Management at WWW 2004, New York, NY, USA
• 20 May 2004: Architecture and Future of Web Services: from SOAP to Semantic Web Services at WWW 2004, New York, NY, USA
• 18 March 2004: Standardisation des Services Web : Où En Sommes-Nous ? presented at 2^èmes Rencontres Web Services, Paris, France
• 18 November 2003: Web services presentation at the W3C Advisory Committee Meeting in Shin Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan (restricted)
• 17 September 2003: Keynote at IT Conference in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: Fulfilling Web services' promises
• 28 August 2003: Web services infrastructure: where do we stand?, keynote at IDG Web Services Conference 2003 in Tokyo, Japan
• 18 June 2003: Keynote Web services: setting and resetting expectations, at the Web Services & Enterprise Portal Conference Hong Kong 2003, Hong Kong — see also the SMIL version of the talk
• 22 May 2003: Web Services Choreography: What and How? during the Web Service Choreography panel at WWW2003, The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary
• 22 May 2003: Designing the architecture for Web services at WWW2003, The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference's W3C track, Budapest, Hungary
• 19 May 2003: Web services presentation at the W3C Advisory Committee Meeting in Budapest, Hungary (restricted)
• 5 March 2003: Experience with a glossary for Web services at the W3C Technical Plenary, Cambridge, MA, USA
• 3 December 2002: Standardisation des Services Web au W3C at INRIA Rocquencourt, France
• 20 November 2002: Web Services: What is it? Where are we going? at the W3C Advisory Committee Meeting in Cambridge, MA, USA (restricted)
• 8 October 2002: Talk at the W3C Day of the Evolve Conference 2002: Web Services in Sydney, Australia: Web Services at W3C and the Status of SOAP Version 1.2
• 27 September 2002: Talk during Journée de veille technologique at INRIA Rennes, France: Standardisation des services Web au W3C — see also the SMIL version of the talk
• 12 July 2002: Web Services Activity presentation at the W3C JP Meeting (restricted)
• 11 July 2002: Keynote at the IDG Web Services Conference in Tokyo, Japan: Leading Web Services To Their Full Potential
• 8 May 2002: Web Services Architecture Working Group status during the Web services session, at the WWW2002 conference
• 7 March 2002: Web services at W3C at the OMG Web Services Workshop
• 14 December 2001: Update on the Work of the W3C XML Protocol Activity at XML 2001
• 20 September 2001: SOAP Version 1.2 / Web services at Progress Software, in Bedford, MA (slightly modified version - original version)
• 10 July 2001: Presentation of W3C and Web services at the Software Services Grid Workshop
• 11 May 2001: Presentation of XML Protocol at the W3C JP meeting (Member only)
• 11 April 2001: Presentation of the organization of the W3C and the W3C activities related to Web services at the W3C Workshop on Web services

Check also the complete list of W3C presentations.

Publications

Below is a list of documents that I have (co-)authored outside of the work of a Working Group:

• 2001-02-06: Common User Agent Problems
• 2004-02-13: Handling Privacy In WSDL 2.0
• 2004-08-13: Constraints & capabilities of Web services agents: a look at the current situation

I have also been an editor of a number of specifications.

Outside work

I also try to have a life outside W3C. If you want to know what I do when I am not in front of a computer, visit my personal site.