Louis A. Schultheiss

Louis Avery Schultheiss (October 30, 1925 – December 11, 2014) was an American academic, librarian, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

"[6] Louis Schultheiss from the regular library staff was appointed to direct tis project with Don Culbertson as his assistant.

"[7] In his 1963 article "Techniques of flow-charting," Schultheiss described the process of creating flowcharts, and gave a series of eleven examples.

About the origin of flowcharting Schultheiss stipulated: "Flow-charting* is a very broad term used to describe a number of charting and diagramming operations, many of them not peculiar to data processing.

The choice of box shapes and sizes may become very elaborate and representational, and may be transcribed in a variety of formats; the Head of our Data Processing Department has often jokingly remarked that by using flow charts and magnetic tape reels we have rediscovered the pictogram and the scroll and are calling this progress.