"Specifically, it shows a dynamic graph in which each vertex is an author of a computer science research paper, where there is an edge between two authors if they have co-authored a paper..."
This is an exact copy of the "Erdős number" concept (just replaces "math" with "computer science" and "Erdős" with "Turing"):
This is an exact copy of the "Erdős number" concept (just replaces "math" with "computer science" and "Erdős" with "Turing"):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number