Kirk also re-programed the computer to make the kobyoshi maru scenario winnable. Sounds like a hacker to me. Mcyroft
Absolutely, in the new Star Trek movie in the deleted scenes it actually shows how he achieved this (in the new parallel universe) by sending an e-mail to his grenn-skinned girlfriend which activates his hack.
Why did this "study" get funding? Because it would make headlines.
Poor old Professor Knowsmath and his study of non-commutive ring structures in siberian oscillations. He'll have to make do with the money the university raised from raffling off that cat (4 euros).
Dude, get a grip, this study WASN'T funded, I just looked at a bunch of DVDs I have in my personal collection that I show clips from to my students.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh