John Gilbey

The University of Rural England’s wildly popular moggie mascot, Mr Tibbles, has disappeared and suspicion falls on the vice-chancellor. As the frenzy mounts, can our lovelorn hero save his reputation, his job, his relationship and perhaps even his mortal flesh in time for Christmas? John Gilbey tells the tale

John Gilbey is intrigued and disturbed by an occasionally irreverent account of how environmental disaster haunts popular culture 

Discovering unexpected oddities while wandering round a university library is one of academia’s purest pleasures, says John Gilbey

John Gilbey is fascinated by an ambitious attempt to analyse and address the disastrous human impact on the biosphere

John Gilbey enjoys a quirky tour of the communications tool we seem unable to do without

How will the rise of artificial intelligence affect universities’ carbon-based employees? John Gilbey runs the algorithm

After the Solstice Attack, the University of Rural England has become a bastion of hope and survival, writes John Gilbey. But how far can it push its role as the ultimate post-apocalyptic anchor institution?

Driverless cars are limited in their understanding and inherit their coders’ biases, warns John Gilbey

John Gilbey praises an entertaining text that draws on popular culture to explain the essentials of computer science to the general reader

Book of the week: sidelining its female workforce cost the UK primacy in a nascent IT industry, says John Gilbey

John Gilbey on the USSR’s failed attempts to develop ‘Electronic Socialism’