When Haydn Wadley first joined UVA, now almost 30 years ago, he came with a passion to change the way materials were processed. He wanted to find ways to probe their structure, and the thermal and other fields within them that changed it, all as the process was underway. He and his students, research scientists and faculty collaborators developed process models that could be used to predict how a process could be changed on the fly to ensure the material being made ended up with the properties it was intended to have. His Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sponsors termed the approach that his, and other groups were inventing, Intelligent Processing of Materials and Professor Wadley named hisresearch groupafter it. Recently DARPA, formed in 1958 by President Eisenhower in response to the Soviet Union's successful launch of the first satellite (Sputnik), celebrated its 60th anniversary. As a part of the celebration, they created a video history of some the agencies major accomplishments in the materials science arena and asked UVA Professor Wadley to describe the IPM approach to materials processing, an approach which these days is pervasively used by industry.