TRL

I am supervising several last-year PhD students this year, and they all have to write a methodology chapter for their thesis. Remember that a methodology chapter is not a methods chapter. While “method” is how you do something, “methodology” is the knowledge (“logy”) of the methods. Still, that requires that you can name your methods and reflect on them. Given that music technologists often work on method development (and related tools) as their core research activity, I see many struggle to describe and reflect on the methods they use. Hence, this little blog post to help people along the way. ...

A couple of days ago, I attended the introduction workshop for new AI centres in Norway to present MishMash and discuss potential collaboration opportunities with the other centres. As expected, the different centres are much more focused on creating software solutions that can be used in the industry than us. We will also explore various use cases in MishMash, but we take a much more creative and exploratory approach. As part of the discussions, the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) was mentioned. I have been briefly introduced to this concept in some other contexts, including some innovation projects we have been involved in. However, I have never taken the time to understand what it actually means. Hence, this blog post is to inform myself (and others). ...