Lofty goals
"Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab" sounds as interesting as S.H.A.D.O.
It will be interesting to see their results, hopefully soon. IMAO, the claims about opening up NP-complete problems are out there with claims of antigravity and cold fusion, and the paper on the experimental eval (ACM 978-1-4503-2053-5) was not entirely clear about anything.
I recommend:
IT WORKS: Quantum Computation by Adiabatic Evolution
NO IT DOESN'T: Adiabatic quantum optimization fails for random instances of NP-complete problems
YES IT DOES: Adiabatic Quantum Algorithms for the NP-Complete Maximum-Weight Independent Set, Exact Cover and 3SAT Problems
...but one would also like to know how D-Wave's machine maps to this approach exactly?