Barbara Turf, a recently retired CEO of Northbrook-based Crate and Barrel, died of pancreatic cancer on July 12. Barbara Turf, a recently retired CEO of Northbrook-based Crate and Barrel, died of pancreatic cancer on July 12. Barbara Turf, a recently retired CEO of Northbrook-based Crate and Barrel, has died, her family and the company said Sunday. Mrs. Turf, 71, died Saturday, July 12, at Evanston Hospital, of pancreatic cancer, her son, Andrew Turf, said in an email.
Introduction to NAICS. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.
Definition of:ASIC. (A pplication S pecific I ntegrated C ircuit) Pronounced  a-sick.. A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor.The use of ASICs improve performance over general-purpose CPUs, because ASICs are hardwired to do a specific job and do not incur the overhead of fetching and interpreting stored instructions.lso promoting the decline of full custom ASICs are chip manufacturers that make generic chips containing all the necessary functions for specific mass market products such as DVDs, CDs, digital cameras, etc. See structured ASIC, gate array, standard cell, ASSP, PLD, adaptive computing and CSIC.