How to read a paper - depth
¡ Approach with scientific skepticism
¡ Examine the assumptions.  Are they:
l Rely on any uncertain trends?
l Reasonable?
¡ e.g., “Let’s assume that there are billions of
powerful computers, connected by a high
speed network, spread across the world, our
system will …”
¡ e.g., “Our system functions in real-time on a
33Mhz Intel 386 with 640K main memory
running Windows 98”