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+Mini-NDN Authors
+================
+
+Mini-NDN is an open source project that includes contributions from the members
+of the [NDN project team](http://named-data.net/project/participants/).
+
+## All project authors, contributors and their affiliations:
+
+* The University of Memphis
+
+    * Ashlesh Gawande <agawande@memphis.edu>
+    * Vince Lehman    <http://vslehman.com>
+    * Lan Wang        <http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~lanwang/>
+
+* The University of Arizona
+
+    * Junxiao Shi    <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/shijunxiao/>
+    * Beichuan Zhang <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~bzhang/>
+
+* University of California, Los Angeles
+
+    * Alexander Afanasyev <http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/index.html>
+
+## The Mini-CCNx team:
+
+* University of Campinas
+
+    * Caio de Moraes Elias
+    * Carlos Cabral
+    * Christian Esteve Rothenberg
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