Interview with Kirk Pearson by Jonathan Despres. Go to the Interviews. I am a software engineer. I have a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and a minor in English (with an emphasis on creative writing). I am best known for my website which catalogs research projects (usually scientific) which apply distributed computing principles to study problems which can't be studied effectively by one person or by one computer and in which the public can participate. Cryonics doesn't show short-term or guaranteed results and people tend not to put effort into projects in which they can't see the results.