Notes towards an intellectual history of the early communist party: The influence of David Ivon Jones

African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 1991.One individual towered over the members of the early International Socialists in South Africa and determined that groups political destiny. He was its thinker, its ideologist, its direction maker. He provided the cultural milieu in which these socialists operated and he gave them organizational direction. Whether for good or for bad, the direction for the young Communist Party of South Africa stemmed from him, even though he had left the country before the formal constitution of the party. His name, barely known in South Africa today, was David Ivon Jones

The British seamen's strike - 1925: solidarity in South Africa

Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The Making of Class, 9-14 February, 198

Walls Have Ears but They Also Speak –A comparative study of two playgrounds

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

Text entry, analysis and correction help : assisting the disabled computer user with data entry

It was suggested several decades ago that computers would be the single biggest step forward in integrating people with physical disabilities into "normal" society. At that stage, much work was done in writing software and designing hardware that allowed computer operators with disabilities to use packages effectively, in certain cases as efficiently as people without disabilities. Since those days, judging by the lack of references on this subject the interest in dealing with disabled people has waned. It is only very recently that the spotlight has been focused on these potentially very productive persons. Unfortunately, the backlog is large and most existing applications software offers little or no support for users with disabilities. In this thesis, I have examined some of the hardware and software limitations of current desktop computer technology, focusing on the IBM PC and compatibles. I have also written a computer program that attempts to relieve some of the difficulties faced by a limited number of disabled users. In evaluating the results, I considered it important to relate the ensuing data with the real problems faced by a far wider spectrum of users than I attempted to cater for with the program and to suggest ways in which software products could be made to have wider applicability in the future

APLIKASI KONVERSI AKSARA JAWA BERBASIS ANDROID DENGAN FITUR GESTURE RECOGNITION

Aksara Jawa atau Hanacaraka merupakan salah satu warisan budaya Nusantara yang semakin terlupakan. Salah satu upaya yang dapat dilakukan untuk melestarikan Aksara Jawa adalah dengan melakukan digitalisasi Aksara Jawa. Perkembangan teknologi terutama teknologi mobile yang sangat pesat merupakan salah satu teknologi yang dapat dimanfaatkan untuk melestarikan Aksara Jawa ini. Selain itu dapat juga dimanfaatkan untuk menjadi media pembelajaran Aksara Jawa. Penelitian ini dimulai dengan melakukan perancangan terhadap kebutuhan-kebutuhan yang akan diintegrasikan pada aplikasi Android ini. Aplikasi ini terintegrasi dengan Android Gesture API yang memungkinkan pengguna untuk menginputkan Aksara Jawa menggunakan metode gesture input pada layar ponsel maupun tablet Android. Fitur gesture input ini memudahkan pengguna untuk menginputkan Aksara Jawa. Dari penelitian ini dapat diketahui bahwa perangkat Android dapat digunakan untuk mengkonversi Aksara Jawa ke huruf latin serta sebaliknya. Selain itu dapat juga digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran untuk mendalami pengetahuan tentang Aksara Jawa