I had the great pleasure of meeting Paul also at the convention. The news of his passing kind of threw me, he will be missed. I found a small section of a blog post I wrote about him back from the first Click convention, his talk was inspiring. Ill leave it below. Rest in peace Paul.
" -2001- 16:30 Pm: Its now time for Paul Boland to talk. Paul is a real nice guy, he was a bit nervous but he did just fine and showed us his 3d tutorial. Somewhere in his cool speech he makes a valid point about truespace. He say’s that many people (including me) checked the demo for a couple of seconds did not know how it worked and deleted it again. This was also because they did not have any documentation to get them started. With Paul’s 3d tutorial you will be making 3d models with ease. He tells us that the full version will be on his website soon. I cant wait to check it out and learn 3d modeling."