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Alex salmond with Robert Clarke and a guitar
based game.
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond officially opened the University of Abertay Dundee’s unique learning and knowledge-creation environment White Space today (Tuesday 27 May). White Space is a £2.5 million development which is at the heart of Abertay University’s computer games technology and computer arts teaching and knowledge-creation activities. It is already a thriving hub of activity, mixing the talents of computer arts and games students, PhD researchers, and lecturers, together with business people, broadcasters and artists. White Space houses the planning and management team for Dare to be Digital, Abertay’s ground-breaking international computer games design competition for students. It is also home to the planning group for Creative Scotland, to part of BBC Innovation, and to Lesley Riddoch’s weekly current affairs show on BBC Radio Scotland, as well as Abertay’s own White Space Solutions company, dedicated to supporting local industry with digital business ideas. The First Minister was accompanied on his visit by Abertay’s Principal, Professor Bernard King, who took Mr Salmond on a tour of the facilities and explain how the area works.
