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Dennis Fetterly
Research Software Development Engineer


fetterly@microsoft.com
Tel. +1 650.693.3814

Dennis is a Research Software Development Engineer in Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley lab, which he joined in May, 2003. His research interests include a wide variety of topics including web crawling, the evolution and similarity of pages on the web, and identifying spam web pages. He has also recently been working on building the MSRBot web crawler, the Your Desktop on Your Keychain project, which utilizes flash memory devices to enable users to carry their desktop PC state with them from machine to machine, and PageTurner, a large scale study of the evolution of web-pages.

Published Papers

Journal
articles

Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, and Marc Najork. On the Evolution of Clusters of Near-Duplicate Web Pages. Journal of Web Engineering, 2(4):228-246, October 2004. [Abstract]

Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, Marc Najork, and Janet Wiener. A Large-Scale Study of the Evolution of Web Pages. Software: Practice & Experience, 34(2):213-237, February 2004. [Abstract, draft]

Conference
papers

Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrell, and Dennis Fetterly. Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks. European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) (March 2007), pages 59-72. Also as MSR-TR-2006-140.

Alexandros Ntoulas, Marc Najork, Mark Manasse, and Dennis Fetterly. Detecting Spam Web Pages Through Content Analysis. 15th International World Wide Web Conference (May 2006). [PDF]

Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, and Marc Najork. Detecting Phrase-Level Duplication on the World Wide Web. 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (August 2005), pages 170-177. [PDF]

Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, and Marc Najork. Spam, Damn Spam, and Statistics: Using Statistical Analysis to Locate Spam Web Pages. 7th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (June 2004), pages 1-6. [PS, PDF]

Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, and Marc Najork. On the Evolution of Clusters of Near-Duplicate Web Pages. 1st Latin American Web Congress (November 2003), pages 37-45. [PS, PDF]

Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, Marc Najork, and Janet Wiener. A Large-Scale Study of the Evolution of Web Pages. 12th International World Wide Web Conference (May 2003), pages 669-678. [HTML, PS, PDF]

Technical
reports

Muthukarrupan Annamalai, Andrew Birrell, Dennis Fetterly, and Ted Wobber. Implementing Portable Desktops: A New Option and Comparisons Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-151, October, 2006, 20 pages [Abstract, PDF]

Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrell, and Dennis Fetterly. Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks. Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-140, October, 2006, 14 pages [Abstract, PDF]


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