Handwritten manuscript describing the 1950-1960 Rochester Conferences, and another manuscript containing Otting's replies to the survey questionnaire. In the latter, he discusses his work in the Electronics Branch of the Office of Naval Research on microwave detectors and generators with John Pierce of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Lester Field of Stanford University, John Strong of Johns Hopkins University, Marvin Chodorow of Stanford University, and Charles Townes of Columbia University; his research at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in lasers and other coherent radiation devices in the early 1950s.