The Department of Software Systems is responsible for the basic studies in computing and programming within the Tampere University of Technology. In research our strengths are:

• Software Engineering: methods; project work and leadership; software architectures, including distributed, mobile, and embedded systems,
• Usability of software and devices: testing for this; human- and user-centered design; psychology; user interfaces.
• Concurrent, Distributed, Mobile, and Embedded Systems: the design and verification of these.
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Structures and Algorithms, and
• Computer Science Education Research.

In English, we offer basic and graduate courses; theses can written for the degrees of Master of Science in Engineering, Licenciate of Technology, Doctor of Technology, or Doctor of Philosophy.  (The International Master's Program for Information Technology only admits students with a suitable Bachelor's degree.)

The computer laboratory Lintula (sometimes called Birdland) is also a part of the Department.

The organizational changes of TUT conjoined the Institutes of Software Systems (ISS) and Human-Centered Technology (IHTE) to the new Department of Software Systems at the beginning of the year 2008.