The Infinite Mixture of Infinite Gaussian Mixtures

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5299-the-infinite-mixture-of-infinite-gaussian-mixtures

Matlab external programs in background

 system('start /b program.exe');

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/85377

Named rows and columns

R has built-in support for naming rows and columns for matrices. Matlab has this functionality via dataset class

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/83204-add-row-column-names-to-a-matrix

One can use double(X) to convert dataset back to matrix.