About: The open-source C-package fastICA implements the fastICA algorithm of Aapo Hyvarinen et al. (URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/) to perform Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Projection Pursuit. fastICA is released under the GNU Public License (GPL).

Initial Announcement on mloss.org.

About: C-MixSim is an open source package written in C for simulating finite mixture models with Gaussian components. With a vast number of clustering algorithms, evaluating performance is important. C-MixSim provides an easy and convenient way of generating datasets from Gaussian mixture models with different levels of clustering complexity. C-MixSim is released under the GNU GPL license.

Initial Announcement on mloss.org.