News and Announcements, 2005 - 2006

Network change for some off-campus Internet users starts July 11 (May 23, 2006)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs), including Penn and commercial ISPs such as Verizon, use the Domain Name System (DNS) to translate alphabetic computer names into their corresponding numerical addresses, e.g., www.google.com into 64.233.161.104, etc. [more...]

IT staff convention well attended (May 10, 2006)
More than 100 IT staff from across the University participated in an IT Staff Convention on April 26 sponsored by Information Systems & Computing. [more...]

Edge filtering begins April 11 (March 30, 2006)
On April 11, the University will implement new security measures at Penn's external Internet gateway to block or redirect certain kinds of Internet traffic. [more...]

Introducing Penn mobile directory (March 21, 2006)
For users of web-enabled mobile devices, finding contact information for people at Penn has become much easier thanks to the new Penn Directory Mobile. [more...]