Instructors:

Randolph Hock, Ph.D.

• Over his career, Dr. Hock has trained over 14,000 online users in thirteen countries.     

• He has created courses on using the Web for professional associations, government agencies and ministries, international organizations, schools, libraries, and companies.

• Ran is the author of The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines  (1999, 2001), The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook (2004, 2007, 2010), Yahoo! to the Max (2005), and The Travelers Web (2007), and is a frequent contributor and columnist for professional journals, including ONLINE and The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research .

• During his career he has held management and training positions with DIALOG and Knight-Ridder Information Services and has served as chemistry librarian at M.I.T. and as a reference librarian at the University of Pennsylvania.

• He has served as adjunct faculty for the University of Maryland College of  Information Studies, for Johns Hopkins University's Division of Public Safety Leadership, for Lesley University (Cambridge, MA), Technology in Education Program, and currently for Catholic University's School of Library and Information Science. Dr. Hock is active in the American Society for Information Science and Technology, where he has served on the Board of Directors, chaired chapters and committees, and served as a peer reviewer. He is also a member of the Association of Independent Information Professionals and the International Association For Intelligence Education.

• Ran's biography has appeared in Who's Who in America and he is a recipient of OSS.NET's OSINT Platinum Candle Award

Publications

Steve Edwards, MBE

(Co-Instructor for OSINT Courses With a Law Enforcement Perspective )

•  With over 30 years operational and detective experience in law enforcement Steve left the public sector in 2007. During a career which had focussed most recently on organised crime, terrorism and cybercrime Steve had developed innovative new techniques for intelligence gathering and was one of the key initiators of the open source intelligence discipline.

•  As a law enforcement officer, Steve trained hundreds of officers in the use of the Internet (and other open sources) for intelligence gathering and with his private company Steve trained police, industry and government investigators at all levels.

• Over the past 3 years Steve has worked in senior manager positions at eBay UK where he had primary responsibility for law enforcement relations and was responsible for training over 4,000 police officers in the use of eBay as an open source intelligence aid to investigations.
  Steve’s career includes roles at New Scotland Yard’s Intelligence Directorate where he founded the first law enforcement Open Source Intelligence Bureau, an achievement which was recognised by Queen Elizabeth when Steve was awarded Membership of the Order of the British Empire. Steve also served on the private staff of the Metropolitan Police commissioner focussing solely on the exploitation of open source information in support of police and government affairs and also the National High Tech Crime Unit and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.  

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Publications (Selected)

Randolph Hock

Books

Hock, Randolph . The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher, 3rd Edition.  CyberAge Books, Medford, NJ, 2010.

________. The Traveler's Web: An Extreme Searcher Guide. CyberAge Books, Medford, NJ, 2007

________. The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher, 2nd Edition.  CyberAge Books, Medford, NJ, 2007

________. Yahoo! to the Max: An Extreme Searcher Guide. CyberAge Books, Medford, NJ, 2005.

________. The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher.  CyberAge Books, Medford, NJ, 2004.

________. The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines: A Handbook for the Serious Searcher, 2nd Edition. CyberAge Books, Medford, NJ, 2001. (also available in Chinese translation)

________.   The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines: A Handbook for the Serious Searcher, CyberAge Books, Medford, NJ, 1999.
 
Articles

Hock, Randolph. “Search Engines” The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. CRC Press, New York. 2009.

Hock, Ran. “The Elements of Advanced Search” Online, v32 n4, July/August 2008, pp. 14-19.

Hock, Randolph..  “Search Engines: From Web 0.0 to Web 2.0 and Beyond” Online, v31 n1, January/February 2007, pp. 26-30

 ________.  Seriously Search Engines,  Monthly column in The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research.  January 1998 - present.

 ________.  "The Latest Field Trip: An Update on Field Searching in Web Search Engines".  ONLINE, v28 n5, September/October 2004, pp. 15-21.

________.   "A New Era of Search Engines".  ONLINE, v26 n5, September/October 2002, pp 2-27 

________.  "Revisiting Web Search Engines Features and Commands" ONLINE, v25 n5, September/October 2001, pp 18-24. 

________.  "Web Search Engines: (More) Features and Commands" ONLINE, v24 n3, May-June 2000, pp 24-28. 

________.  "Web Search Engines: Features and Commands"  ONLINE , v23 n3, May-June 1999, pp 24-28.

________.  "How to Do Field Searching in Web Search Engines: A Field Trip"  ONLINE, v22 n3, May-June 1998, pp 18-22

________.  "Sizing Up HotBot: Evaluating One Web Search Engine's Capabilities" ONLINE,  November 1997, v21 n6, November-December, 1997, pp 24-33.