# Ambients Applied to Ethereum

DevFeed: [Ambients Applied to Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ambients-applied-to-ethereum-16745.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/01/2458>)

Author: Martin Becze

Published: 2016-02-01T04:11:14Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Filesystems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/filesystems.md>), [web browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-browser.md>)

Tags: [consensus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consensus.md>), [distributed-system](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-system.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [object](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [web-browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-browser.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines Ethereum as a distributed hypervisor in which contracts run in isolated computational environments. It compares Ethereum's virtual-machine interactions with those of web browsers and introduces ambient calculus as a framework for reasoning about interactions and scaling.

## Source excerpt

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