Fabián Bustamante gives the NetNeg '26 keynote

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fabián gave the keynote at the First SIGCOMM Workshop on Negative Results in Network Measurements (NetNeg ‘26) on August 17, 2026: “False, Unknown, and the Scientific Value of Not Knowing”.

The talk argues that an experiment has three outcomes, not two — supported, refuted, and undecidable on the available evidence — and that our publishing conventions file the last two together under “didn’t work.” False is knowledge about the world; Unknown is knowledge about the limits of our observation. The damage comes from reporting Unknown as False, closing a question the evidence leaves open.

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Keynote | Aqualab - Northwestern University

Fabián Bustamante gives the NetNeg '26 keynote