diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+Jeff Thompson <jefft0@gmail.com>
+Alexander Afanasyev (http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/index.html)
+Yingdi Yu (http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi/)
+Wentao Shang (http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~wentao/)
+Junxiao Shi (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/shijunxiao/)
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-NDN-CPP:  A Named Data Networking client library for C++ and C
---------------------------------------------------------------
+NDN-CPP-dev:  A dev version of Named Data Networking client library for C++
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-NDN-CPP is a new implementation of a Named Data Networking client library written in C++ and C.  
-It is wire format compatible with NDNx and PARC's CCNx.
+NDN-CPP is a new implementation of a Named Data Networking client library written in C++.
 	
 NDN-CPP is open source under a license described in the file COPYING.  While the license
 does not require it, we really would appreciate it if others would share their
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 Please submit any bugs or issues to the NDN-CPP issue tracker:
 http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/ndn-cpp/issues
 
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-	
-The library currently requires a remote NDN daemon, and has been tested with ndnd, from
-the NDNx package: https://github.com/named-data/ndnx .
 
-Currently, the library has two APIs for developers: 
-
-	1. The C++ API which follows the NDN Common Client Library API also used by ndn-js (JavaScript)
-     and PyNDN (Python).
-
-	2. A core C library implementing lower-level encoding and communication.  Applications should normally
-     use the C++ API, but core C code will also function on embedded devices and other environments 
-     which don't have C++ support.