A team at the University of California, Santa Barbara has designed and tested the world's first fully functional macro-sized quantum computer.
Here is a link to the Earthfiles.com press release that highlights this amazing achievement!
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1829&category=ScienceAlong with the scientific achievements of CERN's LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and certain aspects of nanotechnology, this progress represents the first major steps toward the next Quantum Age.