Ramon Lopez de Mantaras has been selected as the ninth recipient of the AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, sponsored by IAAI and AI Magazine. The award was presented to him at the opening ceremony of the AAAI/IAAI-2011 in San Francisco. As part of the award, Ramon delivered an invited talk at this year’s AAAI/IAAI Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference on August 10 in San Francisco (http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai11.php [1]). Previous winners (see http://www.aaai.org/Awards/engelmore.php [2]) are: Larry Hunter, Ed Feigenbaum, Jim Hendler, Bruce Buchanan, Oren Etzioni, Kenneth Ford, Bill Swartout, and Jay Tenenbaum.