Anomaly Detection | Rewinding Network Events to Detect Anomalies

My earlier blog entry on the idea of a Network DVR made me think of a conversation with a friend who remarked, “Why can't real life be like Tivo?” He wasn’t asking to rewind and relive his childhood again. Rather he was fantasizing about a magic machine that could look through his life and pick out the most interesting events and record them automatically. Facebook’s Timeline feature attempts to do this, but it’s still dependent on you manually adding all your life’s notable content to their website. Wouldn’t it be nice if such a machine exist?