We will unveil MLPACK, a major open source machine learning software project intended to serve machine learning in the same way that LAPACK serves linear algebra. MLPACK is a software collection which will soon cover most or all of the major methods of machine learning. It is built using FASTlib, a well-designed C++ library with special attention to large datasets and the data structures which support them, memory and CPU efficiency, and seamless integration on top of LAPACK. We believe MLPACK fills a major need in machine learning. The initial release contains state-of-the-art fast algorithms for a moderate number of common machine learning methods.