diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index d25b446..8591376 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Donald Stufft
 Eli Bendersky <eliben AT gmail.com>
 Geert Jansen <geertj AT gmail.com>
 Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola AT gmail.com>
-Guido van Rossum <guido AT python.org>: creator of the Tulip project and author of the PEP 3156
+Guido van Rossum <guido AT python.org>: creator of the asyncio project and author of the PEP 3156
 Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro AT gmail.com>
 Jeff Quast
 Jonathan Slenders <jonathan.slenders AT gmail.com>
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 629368e..9f03922 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ primitives.  Here is a more detailed list of the package contents:
 * an interface for passing work off to a threadpool, for times when you
   absolutely, positively have to use a library that makes blocking I/O calls.
 
+Note: The implementation of asyncio was previously called "Tulip".
+
 
 Installation
 ============
diff --git a/examples/timing_tcp_server.py b/examples/timing_tcp_server.py
index 883ce6d..3fcdc97 100644
--- a/examples/timing_tcp_server.py
+++ b/examples/timing_tcp_server.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """
 A variant of simple_tcp_server.py that measures the time it takes to
 send N messages for a range of N.  (This was O(N**2) in a previous
-version of Tulip.)
+version of asyncio.)
 
 Note that running this example starts both the TCP server and client
 in the same process.  It listens on port 1234 on 127.0.0.1, so it will
diff --git a/runtests.py b/runtests.py
index c38b0c1..b6ed71e 100644
--- a/runtests.py
+++ b/runtests.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""Run Tulip unittests.
+"""Run asyncio unittests.
 
 Usage:
   python3 runtests.py [flags] [pattern] ...