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<jats:p>David McAllester and David Rosenblitt's paper, “Systematic Nonlinear Planning” (published in the Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence [AAAI‐91]), won the AAAI‐10 classic paper award. This commentary by Daniel S. Weld describes the two major impacts the paper had on the field of automated planning.</jats:p>